“the elevation of the blacks will be the degradation of the whites.75 Murders, whipping, and physical compulsion would, Schurz asserted, “continue to be so until the southern people will have learned, so as never to forget it, that a black man has rights which a white man is bound to respect,” but when that moment was to arrive was anything but clear. For Schurz, the South in the summer of 1865 foreshadowed the future.76
