Whitelaw Reid: “They had honestly believed in the right of secession.”

Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.

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

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

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