Whitelaw Reid: “It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.”

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.