But so long as a National debt exists no use has been found for it more conducive to the general prosperity than making it the basis of a banking system in which flexibility and safety are combined to a degree never before enjoyed in this country and never excelled in any other.
Blaine discusses the benefits of using national debt as a foundation for a banking system that promotes economic stability.
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The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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