Whitelaw Reid: “Plainly, this unwelcome war is leading us by ways we have not trod to an end we cannot surely forecast.”

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

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

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.