Whitelaw Reid: “What difference does it make now about our beliefs and our arguments in favor of secession?”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

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

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.