Whitelaw Reid: “What we wish is to get settled, to know where we are and what we can depend upon, and then we want to go to work…”

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.

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

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