Whitelaw Reid: “Burnt houses and solitary chimneys over one whole quarter of the city, showed that the heart of East Tennessee loyalty…”

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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

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.

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.