Whitelaw Reid: “It would be much better for Northern men, who seek to avail themselves of these advantages, to go in small colonies.”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

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

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.

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...