The Dispatch sarcastically thanks the Yankees as they "take out affairs into its own keeping" but states that they "decline interference" as southerners fight to get rid of the Yankees who they believe to be the "most infamous race".
A bill makes its way through Congress that grants citizenship to all people born in the United States regardless of color and the Dispatch believes that the President will sign the bill into law
Tensions between freedmen and whites reach new heights in Louisville, where a group of discharged freedmen was brutally assaulted after reportedly insulting a white woman.