I think that both sides were alarmed and felt uneasy.

It showed itself upon the countenance of the people; it made many of them sick.

Men looked haggard and pale, after undergoing this sort of thing for six weeks or a month, and I have felt when I laid [sic] down that neither myself, nor my wife and children were in safety.

I expected, and honestly anticipated, and thought it highly probable, that I might be assassinated and my house set on fire at any time." By the fires of reconstruction the whites were fused into a more homogeneous society, social as well as political.

The former slaveholding class continued to be more considerate of the Negro than were the poor whites; but, as misrule went on, all classes tended to unite against the Negro in politics.