Whitelaw Reid: “But dat I wouldn’t go down to New Orleans for a slave agin, for I was free.”

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.

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

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.