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I tell you, sir,” said a Yankee to a Virginian who didn’t approve of this social equality, “a white man has got just the same right a nigger has—to starve if he won’t work!
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This quote reflects the harsh realities and attitudes towards labor and race during the Reconstruction era.
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Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.
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.
But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.