Whitelaw Reid: “By being an active patriot, not a passive one.”

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

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.