Whitelaw Reid: “It is perfectly true that the people did not wish for more territory, and never dreamed of distant colonies.”

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.

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.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.