But the truth remains, nevertheless, that in the Southern States in which no test-oaths were applied disturbance, disorder, and resistance to law were as frequent and flagrant as in those where suffrage had in some degree been qualified and restricted.
Blaine argues that disturbances in Southern states occurred regardless of suffrage qualifications, challenging assumptions about order and law.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
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