Whitelaw Reid: “Practically we own more than half the coast on this side, dominate the rest, and have midway stations in the Sandwich…”

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.