In New Orleans, the bitterest complaint against the President’s Amnesty Proclamation was, that under it they would be compelled to select obscure persons, or new-comers, for Representatives, “instead of our old and tried leaders.
Reid captures the dissatisfaction in New Orleans regarding the selection of political representatives post-war.
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Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.
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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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