The Nation that scatters principalities as a prodigal does his inheritance is too sentimental and moon-shiny for the Nineteenth Century or the Twentieth, and too unpractical for Americans of any period.
Reid critiques the idea of recklessly giving away national assets, arguing it reflects a lack of practicality.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.