Whitelaw Reid: “The history of our politics shows no graver blunder.”

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

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.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.