Whitelaw Reid: “The truth is, sir, the Southern people have been so soundly thrashed that just now they’ve got d——d few opinions of any…”

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

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.

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.

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