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They are all Union men, in the sense that they submit, (since they can’t help themselves,) and want to make all they can out of their submission.
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “They are all Union men, in the sense that they submit, (since they can’t help themselves,) and want to make all they can…”
Editor's note · Context
Reid explains that the Southern people are compliant with Union authority but are still looking to benefit from their situation.
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They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.
Give them order and justice, and trust to these to win them in other regards to our ways.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?
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