Whitelaw Reid: “Did she deserve so badly of us that, even in a hurry, we should do this thing to her in the name of humanity?”

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.

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.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.