They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.
Reid reflected on how his ideas on expansion provided guidance during uncertain times for public leaders.
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Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.
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.
Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.
In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.