Whitelaw Reid: “And yet there are Californians of this day who profess to shrink in alarm from the remoteness and inaccessibility of our…”

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

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.