Such filthy poverty, such foul ignorance, such idiotic imbecility, such bestial instincts, such groveling desires, such mean longings; you would question my veracity as a man if I were to paint the pictures I have seen!
Reid vividly describes the extreme poverty and ignorance he witnessed among certain families in the South.
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Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
A paper that is not as free to censure as to approve, has no virtue in its support, and no importance attaches to its utterances.
It will make an end forever of Spain in this hemisphere.