Whitelaw Reid: “Roughly cast up even that result, and say whether it is a value which the United States should throw away as not worth…”

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.