Whitelaw Reid: “Yes; but remember we had been fighting secession for thirty years, and had got tired of it.”

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

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

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.