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You haven't seized an opportunity to run away from some distant results of the war into which Congress plunged the country before dreaming how far it might spread.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid accuses the Senate of failing to consider the long-term consequences of their decisions regarding the war.
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Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.