Whitelaw Reid: “Even here, the proportion of young men and women who could spell out simple sentences was not more than one or two in a…”

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

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.