Whitelaw Reid: “The boasted confidence in the slave, and the generous friendship for the helpless freedman were all gone.”

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

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

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

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.