The Negro is Southern born.

With education and property qualifications he can be made to take an interest in the affairs of the South and in its prosperity.
He will side with the whites." Northern observers who were friendly to the South or who disapproved of this radical reconstruction saw the danger more clearly than the Southerners themselves, who seemed not to appreciate the full implication of the situation.

In this connection the New York "Herald" remarked: "We may regard the entire ten unreconstructed Southern States, with possibly one or two exceptions, as forced by a secret and overwhelming revolutionary influence to a common and inevitable fate.

They are all bound to be governed by blacks spurred on by worse than blacks--white wretches who dare not show their faces in respectable society anywhere.
This is the most abominable phase barbarism has assumed since the dawn of civilization.

It was all right and proper to put down the rebellion.
It was all right perhaps to emancipate the slaves....