It was soon perceived by all, as the sagacious had seen from the first, that the Missouri Compromise had not been repealed merely to exhibit unity in the scope of the United-States statutes respecting slavery in the Territories.
Blaine reflects on the implications of the Missouri Compromise and its impact on the political landscape.
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An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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.
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