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No such feeling exists here, however, as in Virginia, where the farmers are said to hold on with a death grip to their lands, and to consider it discreditable to sell to a Yankee.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid contrasts the attitudes of Southern farmers towards selling their land with those in Virginia, emphasizing regional differences in post-war sentiment.
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