The white population of the South were themselves reduced almost to poverty by the long struggle; and even if they had been able they were in no mood to extend relief to negroes who, as they believed, had been wrongfully released from slavery.
Blaine notes the poverty of the white population in the South and their reluctance to help freedmen after the war.
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