Whitelaw Reid: “He was giving the free-labor experiment a fair trial; and risking upon it pretty nearly all he was worth.”

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.

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

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

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