I know we can manage this class, but only by action.

Argument is exhausted, and words have lost their usual meaning.

Nothing but the logic of events touches their understanding; but, of late, this has worked a wonderful change.

If our country were like Europe, crowded with people, I would say it would be easier to replace this class than to reconstruct it, subordinate to the policy of the nation; but, as this is not the case, it is better to allow the planters, with individual exceptions, gradually to recover their plantations, to hire any species of labor, and to adapt themselves to the new order of things.

Still, their friendship and assistance to reconstruct order out of the present ruin cannot be depended on.