The freedmen are peaceable and inoffensive; yet, if the whites continue to make it all their lives are worth to go through the country, as free people have a right to do, they will goad them to that point at which submission and patience cease to be a virtue.
Sumner emphasizes the peaceful nature of freedmen and the consequences of continued oppression.
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