Whitelaw Reid: “Now that the Republic was beginning a new life, could it longer refuse them such rights as the Empire had accorded?”

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.

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

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.

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.