Whitelaw Reid: “The continent divides you from customers beyond the mountains; but the ocean unites you with the whole boundless…”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

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