An old Mississippian was returning from New Orleans in a great rage: “Do you believe, sah, I even demeaned myself so much as to go to a d——d nigger, who called himself a labor agent, and offered him five dollars a head for all the hands he could get me.
Reid recounts a Mississippi planter's frustration over dealing with a labor agent for freedmen.
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Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.
A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.
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That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.