Let us suspend disputes about what is done and cannot be undone, long enough to rally all the forces of good will, all the undoubted courage and zeal and patriotism that are now at odds, in a devoted effort to meet the greater dangers that are upon us.
Reid advocates for rallying together to confront significant dangers rather than dwelling on past disputes.
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And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?
No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.
As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.
The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.