Whitelaw Reid: “The expense of this entire system was about one-half what it cost to support a single regiment in the field.”

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

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

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.