Whitelaw Reid: “Europe will know us better henceforth; even Spain will know us better; and this knowledge should tend powerfully…”

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

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.

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.