Whitelaw Reid: “This statement at once discloses the great difficulty of adapting the free-labor system to the culture of sugar.”

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.