Whitelaw Reid: “It has proved, also, that universal suffrage is the surest guarantee and most powerful stimulus of individual, social…”

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.

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

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.