Whitelaw Reid: “Before the advent of the United States, the history of the world's efforts at republicanism was a monotonous record of…”

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

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.