The labor of the country was not skilled, nor allowed to become so.

The whites could not toil without becoming degraded, and those who did were denominated "poor white trash." The system of labor would have soon exhausted the soil and left the people poor.

The non-slaveholders would have left the country, and the small slaveholder must have sold out to his more fortunate neighbor.

Soon the slaves would have outnumbered the masters, and, not being in sympathy with them, would have risen in their might and exterminated them.

The war was expensive to the South as well as to the North, both in blood and treasure, but it was worth all it cost.
The enemy was surprised by the movements which secured to us a line of supplies.