Whitelaw Reid: “But your representatives in Paris placed your country in no tricky attitude of endeavoring either to evade or repudiate…”

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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.