The notion that such government is a revival of slavery, and that the United States by doing its share of such work in behalf of civilization would therefore become infamous, though put forward with apparent gravity in some eminently respectable quarters, is too fantastic for serious consideration.
Reid dismisses the notion that U.S. governance in foreign territories equates to a revival of slavery as absurd.
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