Whitelaw Reid: “The fresh tide of Northern enterprise will soon sweep rudely enough against these broken remnants of the ancien régime…”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

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