Whitelaw Reid: “Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?”

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

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.