He hoped he could ease the bitterness and hatred the war had brought.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He felt that punishing Davis would only create more bitterness and make reconstruction the rebuilding of the South more difficult.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The laws also increased bitterness between the North and South that lasted many years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He said the North could look on in safety while the actions of some of its people were producing flames of bitterness throughout the southern states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

This kind of justice made southerners feel even more bitterness toward the North.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

This conflict between Johnson and the Congress caused much bitterness.

VOA: special.2010.01.28