Whitelaw Reid: “What do the American people in general, and without distinction of party, look to them for?”

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.