Whitelaw Reid: “In no circumstances likely to exist within a century should they be admitted as States of the Union.”

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

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.