It has already brought North and South together as nothing could but a foreign war in which both offered their blood for the cause of their reunited country--a result of incalculable advantage both at home and abroad.
Reid highlights the war's role in uniting the North and South of the United States.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
These Southern Rebels have their fate in their own keeping, and they are nursing their wrath to keep it warm.