Whitelaw Reid: “You’ve tried supporting yourselves now for some time, and a good many of you have found it pretty hard work sometimes.”

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

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

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.