Whitelaw Reid: “Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.”

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

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.

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