Whitelaw Reid: “Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal…”

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.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

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