Whitelaw Reid: “The salt has not left him, that he cannot occupy and possess the great ocean that the Lord has given him.”

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.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

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