It has been naturally supposed that the bitterest drop in all the bitter cup of humiliation for these haughty South Carolinians, must be the necessity of accepting alms from the Government they had been seeking to overthrow.
Reid comments on the humiliation felt by South Carolinians accepting government aid after the Civil War.
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