Whitelaw Reid: “Already the negroes, who have once tasted the sorghum molasses, insist on being furnished with it in preference to that…”

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

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.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?