Whitelaw Reid: “Would the victors be pleased to tell them what was to be done?”

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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.

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.