Whitelaw Reid: “Have we not a better and more urgent use for our time now than in showing why some of us would have liked them settled…”

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

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.

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

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.