It was here in part because the great cry came up from the white man of the South,--My Constitutional and my natural rights are denied me; and then the cry came up from the black man of the South--My Constitutional and my natural rights are denied me.
Blaine highlights the conflicting cries for rights from both white and black Southerners, reflecting the tensions of the era.
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An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
Many Northern Democrats had indeed given the assurance that if any attempt at coercion should be made by the Republican National Administration, they would themselves meet it with force, and that, if war should come, it would be in the…
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