Even if he could persuade himself that rejecting them is morally and internationally admissible, is he at liberty to commit his country irrevocably to their rejection, because they do not wholly please his individual fancy?
Reid challenges the notion of rejecting opportunities based on personal preferences in public service.
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That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.