There is a larger interest in what other lands have to show and teach; a larger confidence in our own; a higher resolve that it shall do its whole duty to mankind, moral as well as material, international as well as national, in such fashion as becomes time's latest offspring and its greatest.
Reid expresses a belief in the importance of international engagement and moral responsibility.
Share
More from Whitelaw Reid
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
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.
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.
A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.