I incline to think that a large number of the men who got political office in the South, when the men who had taken part in the Rebellion were still disfranchised, and the Republicans were still in power, were of a character that would not have been tolerated in public office in the North.
Hoar critiques the character of some Southern politicians during the Reconstruction era.
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