There have been grave doubts with regard to the policy and the right of impeaching the President upon the facts as presented heretofore, but at the present hour I know of no man who loves his country more than party who will not pronounce a verdict against the President.
Blaine reflects on the doubts surrounding the impeachment process but asserts a strong sentiment against the President.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
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