Whitelaw Reid: “You are not at a disadvantage in trading with them because they have the start of you in manufactures or skill or…”

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

They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.

Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.

Never was there a problem more serious or difficult than that which is now before the Nation, as to this race, whose destiny has been confided to the wisdom and honor of our Government.