In view of all these facts I have been surprised, and somewhat pained, at what seems to me the incomprehensible outcry in the South about my actions—an outcry apparently started in New York for reasons wholly unconnected with the question nominally at issue.
Roosevelt expresses his surprise and disappointment at the backlash he received regarding his actions in the South.
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