Whitelaw Reid: “Nevertheless, nobody doubts the advantage our dealers have derived in the promotion of trade from controlling political…”

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

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

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.

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