Temporary relief however was afforded; but much harm was done by creating in the minds of ignorant freedmen, just redeemed from slavery, the belief that the Government would give to each of them "forty acres of land and a mule.
Blaine warns about the false expectations created among freedmen regarding land ownership after emancipation.
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The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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