But all the concomitants and outgrowths of slavery and State sovereignty, doctrines which lie at the foundation of secession, and beliefs which reject the possibility of free negro labor, or the prudence of conferring legal rights upon free negroes, remained in full strength.
Reid argues that the ideologies supporting slavery and state sovereignty remained strong even after the war.
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They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.
They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.
But proofs were not wanting of the spirit in which, to the very last, the conflict against the Government had been waged.
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.