Whitelaw Reid: “It secured alike for Cubans and Filipinos the release of political prisoners.”

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.