I think it is of the kindliest character.

I have never in my life been treated with more consideration than I have been by gentlemen in the East who were most opposed to the South during the war.
Q.I do not refer simply to personal courtesy, but I mean the expression of feeling as between the sections, the general tendency and drift of Northern feeling towards the Southern portions of the country, to the people of the South?
-- A.

I think, so far as I have been able to observe, that the feeling in the East towards the South is a general anxiety for her prosperity.

I would go so far as to speak of it as anxiety for her prosperity.
Q.You think the war of sections is pretty much over?
-- A.

I think it is obliterated, and for that reason I go back to this point, that our prosperity in the South has begun.
Q.You have described with some minuteness the condition of things among the planters and those who work upon the plantations.