It may even happen that oppressing nations, in the increasing difficulty of floating such loans, will find it easier to relax the rigors of their rule and promote the orderly development of more liberal institutions among their subjects.
Reid suggests that oppressive nations may be compelled to adopt more liberal policies due to financial pressures.
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Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
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