Whitelaw Reid: “Now, sir, there are foolish fellows among them, who, since they have been made free, want to rise from that sphere to…”

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

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

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.