Before the end of the year a large majority of the people of the North and a large majority of the people of the South were distinctly arrayed against each other on a question which touched the interest, the pride, the conscience, and the religion of all who were concerned in the controversy.
Blaine describes the stark division between the North and South on critical issues affecting their identities and values.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
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