Whitelaw Reid: “Some say that since we began the war for humanity, we are disgraced by coming out of it with increased territory.”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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