Whitelaw Reid: “As long as the civil authority is subordinate to the military, there can not and ought not to be any politics or any…”

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

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

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.