Would you have had them throw away a magnificent foothold for the trade of the farther East, which the fortune of war had placed in your hand, throw away a whole archipelago of boundless possibilities, economic and strategic, throw away the opportunity of centuries for your country?
Reid argues against discarding valuable territories gained through conflict, stressing their potential for economic and strategic benefits.
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The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
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.
Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?