Whitelaw Reid: “The war over, you now maintain that we are out, and must stay out till you subject us to fresh humiliations.”

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...

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