Everything dangerous to the settled order of things, everything looking to an establishment of the results of the war, or tending to an indorsement of the political grounds on which the North suppressed the rebellion, is to be abhorred and avoided under the name of radical.
Reid warns against any political movements that threaten the established order following the Civil War.
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We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.
Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.