The law was thus cunningly contrived to hurry the negro into an odious form of slavery, and to make the earnings which came from his hard labor pay the public expenses, which were legitimately chargeable upon the property of the county.
Blaine describes how laws were crafted to exploit African Americans economically, pushing them into a form of slavery.
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
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.
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