Equally unexpected and important to the development of ordered liberty and good government in the world was the American refusal to accept any responsibility, for themselves or for the Cubans, on account of the so-called Cuban debt.
Reid highlights the significance of the American refusal to take on the Cuban debt for the advancement of liberty and governance.
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They should persist in this claim respectfully, but firmly, taking care to bring no discredit upon it by their own action.
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.
It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.
Never was there a problem more serious or difficult than that which is now before the Nation, as to this race, whose destiny has been confided to the wisdom and honor of our Government.