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What can there be, then, for us to do but to return our Senators and Representatives to the Congress from which we tried to withdraw forever?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Editor's note · Context
Reid articulates the sentiment of Southern leaders about rejoining the Union after their defeat in the Civil War.
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