Whitelaw Reid: “What business had government to be interfering with the rights of property?”

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

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

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

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