Whitelaw Reid: “They cannot be contemplated with unmixed confidence by any; and to all who think, they must be a source of some grave…”

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.

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.

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

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