They realized that the waning power of their party at the South, many of whose business men saw that the path of prosperity for the South as well as for the North lay in the adoption of Republican policies, might be reestablished by exciting the fear of negro domination.
Hoar discusses the political dynamics in the South and the Republican Party's strategies.
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What was said helped to arouse public attention, and the masses of the people--always pure and incorruptible--set themselves earnestly and successfully to reform the abuses.
There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.
Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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