But it was impossible to comprehend how a candid legislator could maintain the Constitutionality and expediency of the Act, and then propose to suspend it for that specific period of General Grant's administration, when, if needed at all, it would be most needed.
Blaine questions the logic of suspending a law that is deemed necessary during a critical period.
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