It might have surprised those English critics to learn that the opponents of the Reconstruction policy at home could find nothing to say of it so denunciatory or so concentrated in bitterness as that the National Government was trying to reduce the Southern States to the condition of Ireland.
Blaine points out the irony that domestic critics of Reconstruction were less severe than British commentators.
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