[191] The cotton when ginned should have weighed between one third and one quarter as much as it weighed before ginning. See p. [236].
[192] In one of his letters to the Nation (December 14), Dennett quotes Richard Soule as saying that he thought the past four years had encouraged and confirmed the faults of the negro. "Demoralized on the negro question," therefore, seems to mean, not that Richard Soule and F. H. were finding the negro worse than they had thought him, but that they considered that present conditions were rapidly making him worse.
[193] General Saxton was Assistant Commissioner for South Carolina under the Freedmen's Bureau.
[194] Reuben Tomlinson had been made State Superintendent of Education.
[195] The Union Store was finished, stocked, and operated, but its life was brief. From the first, its vitality was sapped by the claim of the stockholders to unlimited credit; then a dishonest treasurer struck the death-blow.
[197] This was Grant's famous "car-window" report, in which he stated his belief that "the mass of thieving men at the South accept the situation in good faith."
[198] Mr. Waters bought Cherry Hill and lived there for a short time.
[199] "Corner" was the Captain John Fripp place.
[200] At the auction referred to, the Government offered for sale the plantations which had been reserved for the support of schools.