Whitelaw Reid: “What can there be, then, for us to do but to return our Senators and Representatives to the Congress from which we tried…”

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

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

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

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.