By this aggressive policy the Democratic party called forth the enthusiasm of the people, both North and South, in favor of territorial acquisition,--always popular with men of Anglo-Saxon blood, and appealing in an especial manner to the young, the brave, and the adventurous, in all sections of the country.
Blaine discusses the appeal of territorial expansion to the American public during the 19th century.
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Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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