Whitelaw Reid: “Along the great highways of travel in the South, I judge investments by Northern men to be nearly as safe as they could…”

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

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.