Whitelaw Reid: “Rightly used, it enables the United States to convert the Pacific Ocean almost into an American lake.”

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

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

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?