Whitelaw Reid: “They know instinctively that their masters are their best friends.”

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

They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.

Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.

It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.