What is this but proposing such a policy of self-sufficient isolation as we are accustomed to reprobate in China--planning now to develop only on the soil on which we stand, and expecting the rest of the world to protect our trade if we have any?
Reid critiques the idea of isolationism, comparing it to China's historical stance.
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We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.