To the disbanded regiments of the rebel army, both officers and men, I look with great confidence as the best and altogether the most hopeful element of the South, the real basis of reconstruction and the material of worthy citizenship." General John Tarbell, before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, testified that "there are, no doubt, disloyal and disorderly persons in the South, but it is an entire mistake to apply these terms to a whole people.

I would as soon travel alone, unarmed, through the South as through the North.

The South I left is not at all the South I hear and read about in the North.

From the sentiment I hear in the North, I would scarcely recognize the people I saw, and, except their politics, I liked so well.

I have entire faith that the better classes are friendly to the Negroes." Carl Schurz on the other hand was not so favorably impressed.