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But how should we regard the office-seeking class, who, after four years’ war against the flag, had suddenly been beaten into new-born but most ardent love for it?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid questions the sincerity of those who quickly shifted their allegiance to the Union after the Civil War.
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