With him the struggle was not only one of principle, but of pride; not merely of judgment, but of temper; and he communicated to the legions throughout the country, who regarded him with reverence and gratitude, a full measure of his own animosity against Clay.
Blaine illustrates the personal stakes involved in political struggles, particularly the animosity felt towards Clay.
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It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
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.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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