On the record
But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid asserts that there was clear evidence of the ongoing hostility from the South towards the government.
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Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.