Whitelaw Reid: “Regret them if you choose, but do not, like children, seek to make…”

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Regret them if you choose, but do not, like children, seek to make them as though they were not, by shutting your eyes to them.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid urges people to acknowledge realities rather than ignore them.

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Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

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

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

Whitelaw Reid: “Regret them if you choose, but do not, like children, seek to make them as though they were not, by shutting your eyes…”