The eight days within which he should be notified of the charges against him had been long passed; the ten days had certainly expired; but by the construction of the War Department the victim was still in the power that wronged him for thirty days more.
Blaine critiques the delays in notifying General Stone of the charges against him, highlighting the injustice of the situation.
Share
More from James Blaine
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
I am in no boastful mood: I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the Government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
Other voices in this conversation
