South Carolina presented, as a special outrage, the enactment of personal-liberty bills in the free States, and yet, from the foundation of the Federal Government, she had probably never lost a slave in consequence of these enactments.
Blaine points out the irony of South Carolina's outrage over personal-liberty bills despite never losing a slave due to them.
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Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
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