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Many are now making desperate efforts to retrieve themselves, and some will succeed.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Many are now making desperate efforts to retrieve themselves, and some will succeed.”
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Reid acknowledges the desperate attempts of some planters to recover from their losses, with a hint of optimism for success.
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The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.
Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.
Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.