Whitelaw Reid: “Will not you original Union men be again outnumbered by the original secessionists?”

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

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

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

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.