Whitelaw Reid: “Helena church, not one in twenty of the adults can read, though they have had three years of partial and interrupted…”

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

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

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.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.