Whitelaw Reid: “The very first motion of the knife deluged me with blood!”

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.

Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.

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