Whitelaw Reid: “The fresh tide of Northern enterprise will soon sweep rudely enough against these broken remnants of the ancien régime…”

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

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