Whitelaw Reid: “Formerly a Southerner was moody, and resentful of approaches from Yankee-speaking strangers, unless they came properly…”

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.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

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

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.