Whitelaw Reid: “America asks only a fair field, even as against her oldest and most formidable rivals.”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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

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

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.