In spite however of all suggested fears and doubts, a feeling of confidence pervaded the country, and was fully shared by Congress, that the power which had saved the Union could re-establish its credit without panic and without dangerous and prolonged depression.
Blaine expresses confidence in the government's ability to restore financial stability after the Civil War.
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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.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
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