A man would indeed be but a poor American who could without a thrill witness the way in which, in city after city in the North as in the South, on every public occasion, the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray now march and stand shoulder to shoulder.
Remarks in Richmond, Virginia
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The American people are to be heartily congratulated on everything of importance that has been done in connection with the building of the Panama Canal.
Outside of these matters, I believe that the bill is, on the whole, satisfactory and represents an improvement upon previous legislation on the subject.
The board of engineers who signed this report are of all the men in their profession, within or without the United States, the men who are on the whole best qualified to pass upon these very questions which they examined.
It deserves, and should have, the widest possible distribution among the people.
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