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But be that as it may, the ‘freedmen’ are dying by hundreds and thousands.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “But be that as it may, the ‘freedmen’ are dying by hundreds and thousands.”
Editor's note · Context
Reid highlights the alarming death toll among freedmen in the South during the post-war period.
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Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.
But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.