Whitelaw Reid: “Can’t they see that the moment Southern men get power, they’ll kick them all aside?”

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.

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.