Whitelaw Reid: “The expectation was general, among the more intelligent, that suffrage would be given them, and many were beginning to…”

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

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

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

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