Whitelaw Reid: “The more I see of them, the more I am convinced that they are a…”

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The more I see of them, the more I am convinced that they are a totally different class of people, and can never assimilate with us Southerners.

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Whitelaw Reid

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A man shares his belief that Northerners and Southerners are fundamentally different.

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