It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society..

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else..

On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd ….

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and it….