Whitelaw Reid: “Plainly, this unwelcome war is leading us by ways we have not trod to an end we cannot surely forecast.”

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

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

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

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.