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The popular judgment had been fixed by events and by a long course of concurrent evidences, and no single plea or pledge could shake it.
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Blaine emphasizes the strength of public judgment shaped by historical events and evidence.
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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.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
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.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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