Whitelaw Reid: “The American people have made up their minds on that point, if on nothing else.”

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.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.