Whitelaw Reid: “Yes! where are they, when the negro is freed and is so sadly in need…”

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Yes! where are they, when the negro is freed and is so sadly in need of their kind (?) offices?

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid expresses frustration over the lack of support for freedmen who are in dire need after emancipation.

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But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

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

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

Whitelaw Reid: “Yes! where are they, when the negro is freed and is so sadly in need of their kind (?) offices?”