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We are grown more nearly citizens of the world.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid reflects on the growing sense of global citizenship among Americans.
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Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.