Whitelaw Reid: “It was no vulgar lust of power that inspired the statesmen and soldiers of the Republic when they resisted the halting…”

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

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.

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.