“ Again, what is to be said of a mind and a man capable of this utterance: “I stand here now to defend these principles against an attack even more crafty and dangerous than that which in days gone by was made upon them by the power of domestic slavery”? ”

“ These men all know that the responsibilities we assumed in driving the Spaniards out of Cuba had been defined with precision in advance. No foreign nation was in the least likely to mistake our intentions there. If we had not made known our intention to assume the responsibilities that fell to us by the result of the Manila fight anybody might and somebody would have taken steps, possibly disagreeable, to find out or determine what was to be done with those islands. But Mr. Schurz is self-deceived. ”