Whitelaw Reid: “In this great struggle, now for universal freedom not less than for perpetual Union, who ought to take part, if not…”

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

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.

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.