If this cannot be accomplished, radical partisans, with a raging thirst for blood and plunder, are again ready to invade the Southern States and lay waste the country not already desolated, with the sword in one hand and the torch in the other.
Blaine warns of the dangers posed by radical partisans seeking to invade the South after the Civil War.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
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