Whitelaw Reid: “I have never thought of denying or evading my own full share of responsibility in that matter.”

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.