Whitelaw Reid: “The South was only defending itself from Northern violations of law.”

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.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.