On the record
That portion of the earth's surface which is inhabited by the people of the United States is well adapted for the home of one National family, but it is not well adapted for two or more.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine argues that the United States is better suited for a single national family rather than multiple divisions.
Share
More from James Blaine
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.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
