On the record
All we want now is to get back to civil government and the making of our own laws!
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “All we want now is to get back to civil government and the making of our own laws!”
Editor's note · Context
Reid captures the desire of the Southern people to return to self-governance after the war.
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