Let us suspend disputes about what is done and cannot be undone, long enough to rally all the forces of good will, all the undoubted courage and zeal and patriotism that are now at odds, in a devoted effort to meet the greater dangers that are upon us.
Reid advocates for rallying together to confront significant dangers rather than dwelling on past disputes.
Share
More from Whitelaw Reid
I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.
But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
Public sentiment was against the sale of lands to the Yankees; “Get white laborers,” they urged, “and in a year you’ll make enough to be able to hold on to your lands.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.