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To ask the Nation sprung from the successful revolt of the thirteen colonies to acknowledge and act on an immoral doctrine like that, was, indeed, ingenuous--or audacious.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid critiques the expectation that the United States should accept an immoral doctrine regarding colonial debts.
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Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
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