On the record
The inspiration of a great cause does not fail to ennoble the humblest of those who do battle in its defense.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine emphasizes the uplifting effect of fighting for a noble cause on even the most humble defenders.
Share
More from James Blaine
In Congressional districts where the colored race constituted one-half of the total population (and in many instances the proportion was even larger), the vote of one white man offset the vote of two in a Northern district where suffrage…
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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
