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Whitelaw Reid: The admission of that ill-omened and unfounded claim would be, at the bar of politics, a colossal blunder; at the bar of…

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The admission of that ill-omened and unfounded claim would be, at the bar of politics, a colossal blunder; at the bar of patriotism, a colossal crime.
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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid warns that accepting a certain political claim would be a significant mistake and a betrayal of patriotism.

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