Whitelaw Reid: “Don’t you know that these disfranchised negroes of Charleston are infinitely their superiors, in education, industry…”

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

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.