Whitelaw Reid: “Wars between the tribes must be discouraged and prevented.”

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

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

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

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