Whitelaw Reid: “They had been citizens of an Empire; when the Republic bought Louisiana they were disfranchised.”

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

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

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?