Whitelaw Reid: “Seward bought the Russians and Alaskans, and we have governed them ever since, without their consent.”

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

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.