Whitelaw Reid: “He’s the ablest man in the country, and everybody but a blockhead knows it.”

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.

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

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.