Whitelaw Reid: “And, independent of these advantages, and reckoning by mere distance, we still have the better of any European rivals in…”

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.