Whitelaw Reid: “They scrupulously reserved for your own decision, through your Congress or at the polls, the question of political…”

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

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

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

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.