Whitelaw Reid: “We ask no more in the contest for that Eastern trade which has always heretofore been thought to carry with it the…”

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

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?