It seemed that he, too, felt for the first time a difference between himself and these men about him who were so much less demonstrative than he.

But he recovered his poise quickly.
"I speak to you frankly," he replied.

"When our new confederation is formed, it is likely to expand.

A hostile union will lie across our northern border, but to the south the way is open.

There is our field.
Spain grows weak and the great island of Cuba will fall from her grasp.
Mexico is torn by one civil war after another.