Whitelaw Reid: “Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...”

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

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.