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We say to the white man, you are worthless or worse.
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Blaine critiques the negative perception of white individuals in a specific political context.
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With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
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