Whitelaw Reid: “Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.”

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.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

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

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.