I said that I did not think it was necessary for me to go into extended explanations; if my seventeen years of work in the heart of the South had not been explanation enough, I did not see how words could explain.
Reflecting on criticisms, Washington asserts that his long-standing work in the South should speak for itself more than any verbal explanation.
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