Whitelaw Reid: “Even then they are still responsible to the world for the establishment of a better government than the one they…”

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

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.