Whitelaw Reid: “And it is both natural and right that colored Americans, entitled to the rights of citizens, should claim their…”

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

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

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.

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