In the gloomiest hour of the Revolutionary war I never had any apprehensions equal to those which I feel from this source." Men on both sides of the controversy began to realize its significance and to dread its probable results.
Blaine reflects on the fears he experienced during the Revolutionary War, comparing them to the current tensions surrounding the Missouri question.
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The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
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