Whitelaw Reid: “Some day Yankee enterprise will utilize the magnificent water power, convert the forest into gold mines, and find real…”

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.

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

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.