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The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.”
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Reid asserts that the question of whether former slaves can be self-supporting has been definitively answered in the affirmative.
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Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.