Whitelaw Reid: “Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

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

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.