He was blind, therefore, who failed to see that any government then set in motion by the votes of these Rebel Louisianans, must be composed of Rebel officers, chosen because they were known to be in full sympathy with their Rebel electors.
Reid asserts that any government formed by the votes of former Confederates would be composed of individuals sympathetic to the rebellion.
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Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.
Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.