He had given careful study to the duties, the responsibilities, and the limitations of the respective departments of the Government, and he was not willing that his judgment should be revised or his course censured, however indirectly, by a co-ordinate branch of the Government.
Blaine highlights Lincoln's thorough understanding of governmental responsibilities and his reluctance to be second-guessed by Congress.
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The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
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