Whitelaw Reid: “Johnson can force through Congress anything he wants.”

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.