It was certainly of inestimable concern to the honor of the country that those who had shed their blood and those who had given their treasure for its defense, should have their claims upon the national justice placed beyond the whim, or the caprice, or the malice of an accidental majority in Congress.
Blaine stresses the importance of ensuring that those who fought for the country receive justice without being subject to the whims of Congress.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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