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Passing about the dark, crooked streets of Atlanta after night, unaccompanied and unarmed, was worse than attempting a similar exploration of the Five Points, in New York, ten years ago.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid compares the dangers of navigating Atlanta's streets after the war to a notorious area in New York, emphasizing the lawlessness of the time.
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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.
And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?
Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?