Whitelaw Reid: “The men of North Carolina may be “subjugated,” but who shall subjugate the women?”

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

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