Whitelaw Reid: “In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.”

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

The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.

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

We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.