Whitelaw Reid: “But with freedom have come better practices, and already we are assured that theft is comparatively rare.”

It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.

He who has that right will usually respect himself more, be more respected, perform more, and more productive work, and do more to increase the wealth and welfare of the community, than he who has it not.

They should strive for distinction by economy, by industry, by sobriety, by patient perseverance in well-doing, by constant improvement of religious instruction, and by the constant practice of Christian virtues.

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