Whitelaw Reid: “It should be realized, too, how far the new departure does unsettle the practice and policy of a century.”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

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

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

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