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But his presence, while demonstrating the extent to which the assertion of equal rights had been carried, served to increase and stimulate the Southern resistance to the whole system of Republican reconstruction.
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Blaine notes that Revels' presence in the Senate intensified Southern resistance to Republican reconstruction efforts.
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