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Whitelaw Reid: It does not sound, here in Chicago, as if you favored the pursuit of partizan aims in great questions of foreign policy…

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It does not sound, here in Chicago, as if you favored the pursuit of partizan aims in great questions of foreign policy, or division among our own people in the face of insurgent guns turned upon our soldiers on the distant fields to which we sent them.
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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid comments on the importance of unity in foreign policy amidst conflict.

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