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The one involved the highest moral considerations, the other was governed solely by expediency.
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Blaine discusses the moral versus expedient considerations in political decisions.
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The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
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.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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