Whitelaw Reid: “When they speak of a policy of managing free negro laborers, they mean a policy by which they can compel them to work.”

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

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.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

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