But it is right, and one may be proud that the United States stood like a rock, barring any road to peace which led to loading either on the liberated territory or on the people that had freed it the debts incurred in the wars against it.
Reid expresses pride in the United States' stance against imposing war debts on newly liberated territories.
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But, in the main, they are surprisingly orderly, and cases of serious violence among them are quite rare.
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
The question about the slaves being self-supporting, is a question no longer.
No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.