Whitelaw Reid: “It should be realized, too, how far the new departure does unsettle the practice and policy of a century.”

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.

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.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.