Whitelaw Reid: “Come, Peace, not like a mourner bowed For honor lost and dear ones wasted, But proud, to meet a people proud, With eyes…”

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

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

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.