The presence in Washington of a considerable number of men from the South, who, when Congress adjourned in the preceding March, were serving in the Confederate Army, and were now at the Capital demanding seats in the Senate and House, produced a feeling of exasperation amounting to hatred.
Blaine describes the tension in Washington caused by former Confederate soldiers seeking congressional seats after the Civil War.
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