Whitelaw Reid: “All in all, however, Alabama offers better inducements to the Northern emigrant than almost any of the other Southern…”

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.