Whitelaw Reid: “I consider myself a standing proof of the mercy of my government.”

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

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

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.

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