Whitelaw Reid: “Never was there a problem more serious or difficult than that which is now before the Nation, as to this race, whose…”

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

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.