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This measure indicated the disposition to provide for pressing exigencies by devices which covered only the present hour, and left heavier responsibilities to the future.
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Blaine reflects on the short-term solutions adopted by Congress during a financial crisis, emphasizing the neglect of future responsibilities.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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.
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.
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