Whitelaw Reid: “Returned Rebels had not unfrequently been notified that they must leave the country, under penalty of being treated…”

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.