It was at this time that the Ku-Klux crimes and violence broke out, and the laws of the southern states were so cruel, so unjust, so wrong in our view of the rights of the colored people, and of white Republicans as well, that the people of the north resented this injustice.
Sherman describes the violent backlash from the Ku Klux Klan and its impact on northern sentiments.
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