Whitelaw Reid: “In the better days such a question would have been denounced as treasonable.”

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.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

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