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That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.”
Editor's note · Context
Reid uses this metaphor to illustrate the futility of proposed solutions during the Reconstruction era.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.
The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.