Whitelaw Reid: “Are they to be our wards, objects of our duty and our care; or are they to be our full partners?”

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

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.