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

Never was there a problem more serious or difficult than that which is now before the Nation, as to this race, whose destiny has been confided to the wisdom and honor of our Government.

It is my firm conviction, that suffrage is not only the best security for freedom, but the most potent agent of amelioration and civilization.

Ordinarily the simple performance of duty is so blessed of God, that men who live in the doing of it, are the best off, in all respects, even in this world.

It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social and political progress.