Whitelaw Reid: “As to the mere duty of prompt and ample relief for the distress in Porto Rico, there is happily not a shade of…”

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

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

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.