The gradual progress of public opinion in the United States on questions relating to slavery and to the personal and political rights of the negro race, may be clearly traced in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
Blaine reflects on the evolution of public opinion regarding civil rights and amendments related to slavery in the United States.
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Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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