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Never had any rebellion been followed by treatment so lenient, forgiving, and generous on the part of the triumphant Government.
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Blaine highlights the leniency shown by the government after the Civil War.
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The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
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