In his present series of arguments he labored to convince the country that if the Democrats elected the President they would still be practically powerless, and that apprehension of disturbance and upheaval from their success was unfounded.
Blaine argues that the Democrats' election would not lead to significant power changes, countering public fears.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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