Whitelaw Reid: “The world's trade is destined soon to be changed....”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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