Whitelaw Reid: “These were great men, far-seeing, courageous, patriotic, the men of Forty-nine, who in such lofty spirit and with such…”

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.

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

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

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.