They couldn’t imagine where the worthless things had suddenly sunk to, until it occurred to some of them to observe that this disappearance began shortly after their reconstructed Legislature had embodied its wisdom in laws on the negro question.
Reid suggests that the disappearance of freedmen was linked to new laws enacted by the reconstructed Legislature.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.