Whitelaw Reid: “We cannot escape realizing them now, and when the American people wake up to a wrong they are apt to right it.”

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

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.

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.