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The provision made for those who suffered in the civil war has perhaps no parallel at home or abroad.
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Blaine highlights the exceptional provisions made for Civil War veterans, noting their uniqueness in both domestic and international contexts.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
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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