On the record
They furnish the raw material of our industry, and they consume the produce which we manufacture from it.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine emphasizes the economic interdependence between the North and South.
Share
More from James Blaine
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.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
