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The “new blood of the South” was, of a truth, leaping in right riotous pulsations through the veins of the last captured city of the coast.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid describes the vibrant energy and transformation of the South following the Civil War.
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The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.
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.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.