Whitelaw Reid: “Otherwise he violated the Constitution he had helped to make and sworn to uphold.”

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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

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