Whitelaw Reid: “But we can’t make use of our power, because of these miserable toadies.”

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.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

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

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