Whitelaw Reid: “Why mourn because of the precedent we are establishing?”

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.

In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.