Whitelaw Reid: “The American people are in no mood to give them back to Spain, or to sell them, or to abandon them.”

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.