Whitelaw Reid: “God give us the courage to purify our politics and strengthen our Government to meet these new and grave duties!”

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

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.