Whitelaw Reid: “Only so should a nation like ours make peace at all.”

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.

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

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

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.