They were tired of reconstruction, new amendments, force bills, Federal troops--tired of being ruled as conquered provinces by the incompetent and the dishonest.

Every measure aimed at the South seemed to them to mean that they were considered incorrigible and unworthy of trust, and that they were being made to suffer for the deeds of irresponsible whites.

And, to make matters worse, strong opposition to proscriptive measures was called fresh rebellion.

"When the Jacobins say and do low and bitter things, their charge of want of loyalty in the South because our people grumble back a little seems to me as unreasonable as the complaint of the little boy: 'Mamma, make Bob 'have hisself.

He makes mouths at me every time I hit him with my stick.'"* * Usually ascribed to General D.H.Hill of North Carolina, and quoted in "The Land We Love", vol.1, p.