If any doubt heretofore existed as to the right of coercing a State, or upon whom rested the responsibility for beginning the war, or who were the real enemies of the Union, or where prominent members of the Democratic party would stand, it had now disappeared.
This quote asserts the clarity of the Union's position and the responsibilities of various factions at the onset of the Civil War.
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A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....
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....
Indeed, his administration admittedly ranked with the best that had adorned the State for a century, and his friends, including Independents and many Stalwarts, rallied with energy to his support.
More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.
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