Northern capital and energy were likely to have still finer openings within a few months, than any that the confusion of a captured city and the chaos of constantly shifting military government had afforded.
Reid reflects on the potential for Northern investment in the South post-Civil War.
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I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.
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.
The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.