On the record
Slavery was doubtless very bad; but it did one thing we shall never have so well done again—it trained the best personal attendants to the last possibility of perfection.
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Reid reflects on the paradox of slavery, acknowledging its negative aspects while recognizing its role in training skilled attendants.
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These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
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No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.