As to other possessions in the farther East, we may as well recognize at once that we are dealing now with the same sort of clever barbarians as in the earlier days of the Republic, when, on another ocean not then less distant, we were compelled to encounter the Algerine pirates.
Reid draws a parallel between historical conflicts and contemporary challenges with foreign nations.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
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?
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.