Not a word was found in the treaty, and not an inference could be drawn from it, to remove the sense of the unfriendliness of the course of Great Britain in our struggle for existence, which has so deeply and universally impressed itself upon the people of this country.
Blaine expresses the lingering resentment towards Britain for its actions during the U.S. struggle for independence.
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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.
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.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
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