PLEASE HELP!! Write a one paragraph response to the following statement: Was the united states government within its power to try and limit the criticism of the federal government?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

When congress passed the way davis bill in response to lincolns reconstruction plans the president did what to the bill

According to this contract, when will the sharecropper receive his payment?