Whitelaw Reid: “If any system of compulsory labor could make brutes out of intelligent men, would not this do it?”

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

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.

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

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