Whitelaw Reid: “There was no considerable popular support since the Civil War for filibustering expeditions of the old sort against…”

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

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

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.