Whitelaw Reid: “We may cramp her energies and distort her form, or we may make her a rival even of the Empire State of the Atlantic.”

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

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

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.