It is very seldom in the history of political issues, even when partisan feeling is most deeply developed, that so absolute a division is found as was recorded upon the question of adopting the Fourteenth Amendment.
Blaine reflects on the significant partisan divide regarding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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