Whitelaw Reid: “Of the South Carolina slaves, the most ignorant and debased, beyond all question, were those on the sea islands about…”

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.

These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

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