Whitelaw Reid: “They were vehement against Texas, against California, against organizing Oregon and Washington, against the Gadsden…”

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.

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

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.