Whitelaw Reid: “What we wish is to get settled, to know where we are and what we can depend upon, and then we want to go to work…”

In this way they will surely overcome unjust hostility, and convince even the most prejudiced that the denial to them of any right which citizens may properly exercise is equally unwise and wrong.

It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.

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

Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.