Whitelaw Reid: “The expense of this entire system was about one-half what it cost to support a single regiment in the field.”

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.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.