It was refreshing to see with what careful consideration and scrupulous politeness they approached the “niggers.” Here was no longer “hatred of the upstarts,” “war of races,” “unconquerable antagonism.” The negro was king.
Reid observes a shift in social dynamics where former slaves are treated with respect by planters.
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Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.
In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.