Whitelaw Reid: “Now, when we sought for Union men to re-organize civil government there were none to be found.”

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Something, however, must be done to disperse this unwholesome gathering at Newbern, or the tumor, thus neglected, may do serious injury.