Our exclusive possession of the field thus acquired lasted two years.

At the end of these we found that at least the appearance of competition was indispensable and willingly accepted an offer from a proposed Republican organ for a division of the Press dispatches which we controlled.

Then and there the real prosperity of the Courier-Journal began, the paper having made no money out of its monopoly.
IV Reconstruction, as it was called--ruin were a fitter name for it--had just begun.

The South was imprisoned, awaiting the executioner.

The Constitution of the United States hung in the balance.