Whitelaw Reid: “Can we grow tobacco in Cuba, but not in Cebu; or rice in Louisiana, but not in Luzon?”

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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

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

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.