Whitelaw Reid: “The world's trade is destined soon to be changed....”

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

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.

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

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.