Whitelaw Reid: “The abolition of slavery was the death-blow to the great cotton interest of the United States.”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

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

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.