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Northerners having money to invest in the South, men were very willing to forego manifestations of Rebel spite toward them for the sake of furthering their chances of a good bargain.
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Whitelaw Reid
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This quote illustrates the willingness of Northerners to overlook past animosities for the sake of economic opportunities in the South.
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Extravagant living left nearly every planter enormously in debt when the war came.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.