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The American people demand that we shall do something, and quickly.
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Blaine emphasizes the urgency for action from Congress in response to the situation in the South after the Civil War.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
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