Whitelaw Reid: “Do you know of any other civilized nation of the first or even of the second class that wouldn't jump at that option on…”

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.