Whitelaw Reid: “Ludicrous as was the solemnity of these proceedings, they were, nevertheless, of value, as showing inherent ideas of…”

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

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

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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.