Whitelaw Reid: “At this moment scarcely a politician dares frankly avow unalterable opposition to the admission of Cuba, if she should…”

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.

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

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

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.