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The “new blood of the South” was, of a truth, leaping in right riotous pulsations through the veins of the last captured city of the coast.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid describes the vibrant energy and transformation of the South following the Civil War.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
No matter what we wish, the old continental isolation is gone forever.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.