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

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.