Whitelaw Reid: “Over and over, the clearest-eyed students of history have predicted our own downfall even as a continental republic, in…”

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

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

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.