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Probably this burden fell heavier on the young men, who had life before them and who were growing up with diminished opportunities.

Sidney Lanier, then an Alabama school teacher, wrote to Bayard Taylor: "Perhaps you know that with us of the young generation in the South, since the war, pretty much the whole of life has been merely not dying." Negro and alien rule was a constant insult to the intelligence of the country.

The taxpayers were nonparticipants in the affairs of government.

Some people withdrew entirely from public life, went to their farms or plantations, kept away from towns and from speechmaking, waiting for the end to come.
There were some who refused for several years to read the newspapers, so unpleasant was the news.

The good feeling produced by the magnanimity of Grant at Appomattox was destroyed by the severity of his Southern policy when he became President.