There were few boasts as to what the South would do, or how heartily that true Southern man, the President, would sustain them; there was more tendency to complain that they had been whipped for trying to go out, and that now the door was shut in their faces when they tried to come in.
Reid comments on the reduced bravado among Southerners regarding their political aspirations after the Civil War.
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