Whitelaw Reid: “We may as well, here and now, keep our feet on solid ground, and deal with facts as they are.”

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.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

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.