Whitelaw Reid: “Or should further guarantees be exacted, and reorganization delayed until they were furnished?”

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.

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

Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...