Whitelaw Reid: “Before the war, such an undertaking as making engines for a great steamer, in the South, was scarcely dreamed of.”

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.