Whitelaw Reid: “I profoundly regret this fact;... but it is a fact, nevertheless, and, as such, must weigh in determining my conduct as…”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

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

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.