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So long as the war issues are capable of being warmed over,
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from year to year,and election to election,
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so long as a large section of the country is
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disturbed by violence and paralyzed by misgovernment,
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so long as white is arrayed against black,
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so long will our politics be feverish with this disease."
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Multiple choice question: what's the disease?
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You can make up the answers and you can pick.
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Or the New York Times,
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not a liberal paper in these years:
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"Ten years ago the North
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was nearly united in a feeling of sympathy for the freedmen