The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
Whitelaw Reid
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Whitelaw Reid was an American politician, diplomat and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history.
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Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
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Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...
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?
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.
No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
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.
Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.