Whitelaw Reid: “Now suddenly the United States found itself in possession of Cuba, Porto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

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

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.