Already some of the very best soil of that State is held by the people this great magnus in the Nation's councils would supersede in their divine rights.
When the war closed, as I said, the great black population of the South was distinctively a laboring class.

It owned no lands, houses, banks, stores, or live stock, or other wealth.

Not only was it the distinctively laboring class but the distinctively pauper class.

It had neither money, intelligence nor morals with which to begin the hard struggle of life.

It was absolutely at the bottom of the social ladder.