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Disaffection, weariness, indisposition to the long strain of an effort that took more than four years to accomplish its purpose; that was what broke down the Confederacy.
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Reid identifies disaffection and weariness as key factors that contributed to the collapse of the Confederacy.
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In November nothing could exceed the hatred which seemed everywhere felt to the freedmen.
As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.
Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.