Whitelaw Reid: “Who thinks he can lay his hand on the rugged edge of the Muir Glacier and compel it to advance no farther?”

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.