Why should not the people on the island of Porto Rico, or even of Cuba, prosper and be happy for the next century under a rule similar in the main to that under which their kinsmen of New Mexico have prospered for the last half-century?
Reid questions why Puerto Rico and Cuba cannot thrive under a governance similar to that of New Mexico.
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Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
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