Whitelaw Reid: “Till then, let us as practical and sensible men recognize that what is past is settled.”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

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

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

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.