Whitelaw Reid: “I think I see a course adopted which is likely to turn the Constitution of this land into a deformed monster--into a…”

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.

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

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to 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.