But you pardon Howell Cobb and every other leading secessionist; they at once become the natural leaders in an overwhelmingly secessionist community; and we, through mistaken kindness of our own Government, are worse ostracized to-day, in the new order of things, than we ever were during the war.
Reid critiques the post-war political landscape, where former secessionists regain influence while Union supporters face exclusion.
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Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?
The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.