Whitelaw Reid: “The man that takes it farther sounds its death-knell.”

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

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

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.

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