Whitelaw Reid: “It was a war to put down a rule over an alien people, which we…”

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It was a war to put down a rule over an alien people, which we declared so barbarous that we could no longer tolerate it.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid describes the war as a moral imperative to end oppressive rule over alien peoples.

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Whitelaw Reid: “It was a war to put down a rule over an alien people, which we declared so barbarous that we could no longer tolerate…”