Whitelaw Reid: “You do not regard any of your rights, then, as destroyed or imperiled by your rebellion?”

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.