James Blaine: “He insisted, as the supreme issue, that the Reconstruction Acts and their fruits must be overthrown.”

The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.

In Congressional districts where the colored race constituted one-half of the total population (and in many instances the proportion was even larger), the vote of one white man offset the vote of two in a Northern district where suffrage…

Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.

The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.