Whitelaw Reid: “We feel confident that the President will not yield any more ground to them, if indeed he does not withdraw from them…”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.