When the first duty is done, when order is restored in those commercial centers and on that commercial highway, somebody must then be responsible for maintaining it--either ourselves or some Power whom we persuade to take them off our hands.
Reid emphasizes the need for responsibility in maintaining order after it is established.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
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