As a member of the Georgia Convention, entertaining the views I then did, I opposed the immediate secession of the State from the Union, and used every effort in my power to prevent it, until I became satisfied that a controlling majority of the Convention entertained different views.
Reid recounts his opposition to secession during the Georgia Convention, reflecting on his political stance.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.