It is estimated that not less than two million people are in a condition of utter destitution in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and the Carolina s alone. Of those the great majority are of course Negroes, though there is great suffering among the whites, consequent upon the unsettled condition of the country and the ruin of the labor system. In their efforts to give the freedmen political supremacy the radicals have succeeded in impressing them with the idea that they are to be supported without work. Never was policy more ruinous than that of the Jacobin Congress.

The Bolivar Bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 04 Jan. 1868, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.