He stood firmly by his State in accordance with the political creed in which he had been reared, but looked back with tender regret to the Union whose destiny he had wished to share and under the protection of whose broader nationality he had hoped to live and die.
Blaine describes a leader's loyalty to their state while expressing nostalgia for the Union.
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