Their successors in public responsibility, if not their equals in public regard and confidence, were already upon the stage preparing for, and destined to act in, the bloodiest and most memorable of civil struggles.
Blaine discusses the emergence of new leaders amidst the looming Civil War.
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The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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