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His numbers will ultimately command what should now be yielded on the ground of simple justice and wise policy.
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Blaine expresses confidence that the growing population of freedmen will eventually demand justice and fair treatment.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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