While pursuing this policy I have not failed, at the proper time and in the proper manner, to call attention, in no uncertain terms, to the wrongs which any part of the South has been guilty of.
Washington clarifies that his policy of giving credit does not prevent him from addressing injustices in the South when appropriate.
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