But, on the other hand, I am not here either to launch charges of treason against any opponent of these policies, who nevertheless loves the institutions founded on these shores by your ancestors, and wishes to perpetuate what they created.
Reid clarifies that he does not intend to accuse opponents of treason, acknowledging their love for the nation.
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That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.
You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.