Whitelaw Reid: “For three quarters of a century we had asserted a special interest and right of interference there as against any other…”

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.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.