On the record
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
He points out how the Electoral College system disproportionately empowered Southern white voters over their Northern counterparts.
Share
More from James Blaine
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
