Whitelaw Reid: “Regret them if you choose, but do not, like children, seek to make them as though they were not, by shutting your eyes…”

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

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

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

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