Fact is, gentlemen,” I heard an officer wearing the United States uniform say to planters, asking about the chances for hands, when the regiment was disbanded; “Fact is, you had better make your bargains with us than with the niggers.
Reid quotes an officer emphasizing the importance of negotiating with soldiers over freedmen for labor contracts.
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They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.