Whitelaw Reid: “Stand firm in the place where Providence has put you, and do the duty a just responsibility for your own past acts…”

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

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.