Whitelaw Reid: “But the deference to them likely to be shown by partisans eager for their votes would have a tendency to uplift and…”

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

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.

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.

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