From these still regions of cloistered thought may well come the white light of pure reason, not the wild, whirling words of the special pleader or of the partizan, giving loose rein to his hasty first impressions.
Reid advocates for reasoned discourse over emotional rhetoric in public affairs.
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Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.