The free-traders, as an answer to this arraignment of their tariff policy, seek to charge responsibility for the financial disasters to the hasty and inconsiderate changes made in the tariff in 1857, for which both parties were in large degree if not indeed equally answerable.
Blaine discusses the blame placed on tariff changes for financial disasters, highlighting the debate between free-traders and protectionists.
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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.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
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.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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