Whitelaw Reid: “What security have we, in restoring political power to a community disposed toward us as yours was, and still feeling as…”

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

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

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.