De Alexander: “Danger to the Union, at least assumed danger, could not in any way soften their hearts or change their purposes.”

Enlightened and persuasive discussion of the negro problem in its present phases and aspects.

More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.

Referring to the fraudulent practices, he said: "No one claims, no one believes, that I had lot or part therein, or previous hint or suspicion thereof.

Human, dramatic, interesting, absorbing, there is philosophy of national and political life back of it--a philosophy which not only furnished interpretation of past events, but offers guidance for the future....