Whitelaw Reid: “Can a nation with safety set such limits to its development?”

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.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.