Whitelaw Reid: “We broke it down, and we cannot, dare not, display the cowardice and…”

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We broke it down, and we cannot, dare not, display the cowardice and selfishness of failing to replace it.

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Reid calls for the United States to take responsibility for restoring order after disrupting it through war.

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Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

Whitelaw Reid: “We broke it down, and we cannot, dare not, display the cowardice and selfishness of failing to replace it.”