Whitelaw Reid: “But the treaty refused to return to Spanish rule one foot of territory over which that rule had been broken by the…”

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.