Or shall the historian record that at this unexampled crisis they were controlled by timid ideas and short-sighted views, and so proved unequal to the duty and the opportunity which unforeseen circumstances brought to their doors?
Reid warns that history may judge the American people harshly if they fail to act decisively during a crisis.
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But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.
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.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.