Whitelaw Reid: “But we shall manage things better when Creoles control Cuba.” An adjacent sugar planter wouldn’t make so bad a neighbor.”

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.