Whitelaw Reid: “But on a far-reaching question of national policy the wise public man is not so greatly disturbed by what people say in…”

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

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?