If Englishmen had studied the Reconstruction policy instead of deriding it, they might have learned that the American Government accomplished for the South in four years what their own Government has failed to accomplish for Ireland through ten generations.
He critiques the British understanding of American Reconstruction, suggesting it achieved more in four years than Britain did for Ireland in centuries.
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With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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