It is, therefore, to their mutual disadvantage that anything but sympathy and good will should prevail.

A reign of terror means a stagnation of all the energies of the people and a corruption of the fountains of law and justice.
The colored men of the South must cultivate more cordial relations with the white men of the South.

They must, by a wise policy, hasten the day when politics shall cease to be the shibboleth that creates perpetual warfare.

The citizen of a State is far more sovereign than the citizen of the United States.

The State is a real, tangible reality; a thing of life and power; while the United States is, purely, an abstraction--a thing that no man has successfully defined, although many, wise in their way and in their own conceit, have philosophized upon it to their own satisfaction.