Of the three great parties to the undertaking, Columbus alone, seemed to have been unsuccessful, but at the end of four centuries he reappears as the one personage to whom the gratitude of mankind is due for the discovery of the new world.
Boutwell reflects on Columbus's legacy, suggesting he ultimately deserves gratitude for his discoveries despite his failures.
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The gratitude of his countrymen rebuked all rivalries.
But I am more anxious to deal justly by them because they are men.
I hope it is not necessary in this day and this hour of the Republic to argue anywhere that a property qualification is not only unjust in itself, but that it is odious to the people of the country to a degree which cannot be expressed.
General Grant was not indisposed to see the territories of the Republic extended, but his love of justice and fair dealing was such that he would have used only honorable means in his intercourse with other nations.
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