The great cotton plantations bordering the Mississippi are largely in the hands of Northern lessees; and few, if any of them have experienced the slightest difficulty from any hostility of the inhabitants.
Reid observes that Northern lessees manage large cotton plantations in the South without facing hostility from local inhabitants.
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As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.
Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?