Whitelaw Reid: “I was not one of those who were eager to begin this war with Spain; but I protest against any attempt to evade our just…”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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

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.

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