Whitelaw Reid: “It is easy to say that we ought not to have got into this conflict, and to that I might agree.”

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

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

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