Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long.
Washington recalls his youthful intuition during Reconstruction, sensing that the prevailing conditions were unsustainable and flawed.
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