But surely European statesmen, without miraculous foresight, might have anticipated that its success would have been more dangerous than its defeat, and that the conservative strength of the Union might be even to them an influence of good and not of evil.
Blaine suggests that European statesmen should have recognized the potential dangers of a foreign empire in Mexico.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
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