That there was any modification of the old order of things—that Southern men were not to be heeded whenever they stamped their feet—that every Rebel had not the same rights under the Constitution with every loyal man—were things which, in his seclusion in the interior, had never occurred to him.
Reid critiques the senator's failure to recognize the altered political landscape post-Civil War.
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Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
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.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.