James Blaine: “Justice was defied, and injustice incorporated as the very spirit of the laws.”

Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.

Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…

Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.

If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.