It does not change the character of the crime against these humble laborers, but it certainly enhances its degree that the law-makers of Alabama preferred an oppressive fraud to the honest payment of a consideration so small as to be almost nominal.
Blaine condemns the Alabama lawmakers for preferring fraud over fair compensation for labor.
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An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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