Whitelaw Reid: “The war over, you now maintain that we are out, and must stay out till you subject us to fresh humiliations.”

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

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