On the record
For many years they will be the hardest people in the civilized world to persuade into insurrection.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “For many years they will be the hardest people in the civilized world to persuade into insurrection.”
Editor's note · Context
Reid describes the difficulty of persuading Southern people to rise up against the Union in the years following the Civil War.
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