Whitelaw Reid: “A farm of a hundred acres can thus be bought, in many localities, for five or six hundred dollars, half or more of it on…”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.