Whitelaw Reid: “The United States promoted the cause of genuine International Arbitration by promptly and emphatically rejecting an…”

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.