Whitelaw Reid: “But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?”

It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.

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

Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.

It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.