Whitelaw Reid: “It makes no effort to exploit Porto Rico for the benefit of another country.”

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

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

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

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.