Whitelaw Reid: “Jefferson even held that the United States could sell territory, hold it as a colony, or regulate its commerce as it…”

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

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

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