Whitelaw Reid: “Where are the Christian Commissions of Boston, and the Freedmen’s Aid…”

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Where are the Christian Commissions of Boston, and the Freedmen’s Aid Societies of Philadelphia?

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid questions the absence of aid organizations that had previously advocated for the rights of freedmen.

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You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

Whitelaw Reid: “Where are the Christian Commissions of Boston, and the Freedmen’s Aid Societies of Philadelphia?”