Whitelaw Reid: “But why not turn over that commercial center and the island on which it is situated to the Tagals?”

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.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

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.