It is not Imperialism to take up honestly the responsibility for order we incurred before the world, and continue under it, even if that should lead us to extend the civil rights of the American Constitution over new regions and strange peoples.
Reid argues that taking responsibility for order does not equate to imperialism, even if it leads to extending civil rights.
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Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
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.