Whitelaw Reid: “The sugar-planters had all ostentatiously proclaimed that the…”

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The sugar-planters had all ostentatiously proclaimed that the Emancipation Proclamation had demoralized their labor and ruined their business.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid reports on the claims of sugar-planters regarding the negative impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on their businesses.

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You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Whitelaw Reid: “The sugar-planters had all ostentatiously proclaimed that the Emancipation Proclamation had demoralized their labor and…”