By the other slavery had a foot-hold in the Territories under the Constitution of the United States, and could not be dislodged or disturbed by the inhabitants of a Territory even though ninety-nine out of every hundred were opposed to it.
Blaine discusses the constitutional protections for slavery in the Territories, regardless of local opposition.
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He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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