1 Many of the men were totally unarmed, for the Confederacy had neither rifles nor ammunition to issue to them.
2 "Ah ain no free issue nigger," declared the driver with heat.
3 "Free issue country niggers," snorted Mammy.
4 Many loyal field hands also refused to avail themselves of the new freedom, but the hordes of "trashy free issue niggers," who were causing most of the trouble, were drawn largely from the field-hand class.
5 And I'm through with free issue darkies.
6 But she would not, she told him firmly, have any trashy free issue niggers in her nursery.
7 How perverse of him to evade the issue so neatly, as if not caring whether children came had anything to do with their actual arrival.
8 And in this case there was no doubt of the issue.
9 In tempestuous times like these, after everything above and aloft has been secured, nothing more can be done but passively to await the issue of the gale.
10 The issue was, the loss of the extremities of both feet.
11 Eight negroes lynched since last issue of the Free Speech one at Little Rock, Ark.
12 A negro organ printed in this city, in a recent issue publishes the following atrocious paragraph: "Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie that negro men rape white women."
13 From this exposition of the race issue in lynch law, the whole matter is explained by the well-known opposition growing out of slavery to the progress of the race.
14 It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords waited.
15 They made an offer to submit the whole question at issue to arbitration; and at the end of ten days the unions accepted it, and the strike was called off.