Whitelaw Reid: “How well would our famous national digestion probably advance if we filled up our Senate with twelve or fourteen more…”

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.