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We will be wise to open our eyes at once to the gravity and the insidious character of this danger--the very worst that could threaten the American Union.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid warns of the serious dangers that threaten the unity of the American Union.
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With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.
And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?