Whitelaw Reid: “You protect individuals against them; why isn’t it more important to protect whole communities?”

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

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

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?...