Whitelaw Reid: “Last spring, you can form no conception of the utter, abject humiliation of the Southern people.”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.

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.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.