Whitelaw Reid: “The original proposal would have in itself done far less harm than its opponents imagined and far less good than its…”

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.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

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

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.