Whitelaw Reid: “If, then, he has contributed in just measure to the victory, shall he not partake of its fruits?”

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

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

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?