Whitelaw Reid: “Yet who shall deny the Christianizing influences of slavery?”

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

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.

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