Whitelaw Reid: “All we want now is to get back to civil government and the making of our own laws!”

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.