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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Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
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