Whitelaw Reid: “If you do not help shape them, others, without your high principle and purity of motive, may.”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

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

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.