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Whitelaw Reid: And another class are violent and malignant Rebels, enraged at their defeat, and hardly yet willing to submit to the…

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And another class are violent and malignant Rebels, enraged at their defeat, and hardly yet willing to submit to the inevitable.
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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid describes a third group of Southern individuals who are still resistant and angry about their defeat in the Civil War.

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