Whitelaw Reid: “Not within a century, not during our whole history, has such a field opened for our reaping.”

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

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

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

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