Whitelaw Reid: “Leading Mississippians, however, even of the ultra type, denounced it…”

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Leading Mississippians, however, even of the ultra type, denounced it as impracticable.

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Reid reports that even some extreme Mississippi leaders found certain legislative proposals to be impractical.

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Whitelaw Reid: “Leading Mississippians, however, even of the ultra type, denounced it as impracticable.”