Whitelaw Reid: “Why mourn over our present course as a departure from the policy of the fathers?”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

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

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.