Whitelaw Reid: “Must the poor negroes prove the vent for this rage that dare not reach to higher objects?”

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.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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