Whitelaw Reid: “Individual initiative is a good thing, and our institutions do develop it--and its consequences!”

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

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.

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

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