I am determined that I will have nothing to do, down here, with any social organization into which politics are permitted to enter!” In his mind the use of the word “Union” as part of the title of a club was the introduction of an offensive political distinction!
Whitelaw Reid expresses his strong stance against mixing politics with social organizations in the post-Civil War South.
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