One, embracing, I think, a majority of the people, is thoroughly cowed by the crushing defeat, has the profoundest respect for the power that has whipped them so badly, and, under the belief of its necessity, will submit to anything the Government may require—negro suffrage, territorial pupilage—anything.
Reid reflects on the mindset of a majority of Southern people after the Civil War, highlighting their submission to the new government.
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