Whitelaw Reid: “I don’t believe there ever was a majority for secession in South Carolina.”

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

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

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...