Trade, indeed, follows the flag; but for trade you must have money; and of this there is far too little in the exhausted country to bring back business into its old channels, as speedily as Northern speculators are imagining.
Reid discusses the economic challenges facing the South, particularly the lack of money needed to revive trade after the war.
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