Whitelaw Reid: “So, too, when it came to acquiring new territory, there was no thought of consulting the inhabitants.”

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.