Whitelaw Reid: “What security have we, in restoring political power to a community disposed toward us as yours was, and still feeling as…”

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.

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.

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

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