Their masters believe them to be well acquainted with the essential facts in our own great conflict, and the whole slave community is said to be fermenting with ideas engendered by American emancipation.
Reid notes that the slave community is influenced by American emancipation, stirring thoughts of freedom.
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Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?