On the record
In my judgment we do not sufficiently protect the loyal men in the rebel States from the vindictive persecutions of their rebel neighbors.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine argues for better protection of loyal individuals in rebel states from persecution by their neighbors.
Share
More from James Blaine
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
These divergent practices had been allowed to develop for seventy-seven years of the nation's life, when, admonished by the Stockton case of the latitudinary results to which loose methods might lead, Congress took jurisdiction of the…
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
Other voices in this conversation
