Whitelaw Reid: “Why not depend on the power of wages, if they work, or of want, if they don’t, to settle the labor question?” I asked…”

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

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

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?