Indeed, by an apparent contradiction not difficult to reconcile, many of those who fought bravely for the right of the Abolitionists to be heard in Congress by petition, were yet enraged with them for continually and, as they thought, causelessly, raising and pressing the issue.
Blaine observes the paradox of support for the Abolitionists' right to petition while simultaneously facing backlash from the public.
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Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
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