We have incurred an enormous debt in subduing you, and we know that there is a small party at the North openly, and a larger one secretly, desirous of repudiating that debt, in order to shake off the burden of heavy taxation.
Reid discusses the financial burdens incurred by the North during the Civil War and the potential for repudiation of that debt.
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