But in the judgment of a large and intelligent majority of those who were contemporary with the war and gave careful study to its progress, the legal-tender bill was a most effective and powerful auxiliary in its successful prosecution.
Blaine asserts that many contemporaries viewed the legal-tender bill as crucial for the war effort's success.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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 refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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.
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