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In other words, then, men said, let the Union be destroyed, with whatever attendant horrors, rather than one should be bothered to keep up this perpetual struggle.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid summarizes the sentiment that some preferred the destruction of the Union to ongoing conflict.
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