Whitelaw Reid: “Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail…”

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

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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.

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.