Whitelaw Reid: “Till then we can make any law we like to prevent the immigration of their laborers, and any tariff we like to regulate…”

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

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

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.