Whitelaw Reid: “Johnson can force through Congress anything he wants.”

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 proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

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