Whitelaw Reid: “Did he himself, then, carry his own words to such extremes as these professed disciples now demand?”

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

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

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

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.