Whitelaw Reid: “The mistake we have generally made in the South has been that we have supposed nigger nature was something different…”

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

A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.

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

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.