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Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
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Reid discusses the Southern belief in the legitimacy of their debts despite their defeat.
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The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.
These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.