Whitelaw Reid: “Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.”

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

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

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