Whitelaw Reid: “There is a germ of a great truth in this, but the development of the truth is lost sight of.”

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?

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

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.