James Blaine: “Success records us forever in letters of light upon one of the most glorious pages of history.”

Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.

In Congressional districts where the colored race constituted one-half of the total population (and in many instances the proportion was even larger), the vote of one white man offset the vote of two in a Northern district where suffrage…

As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.

Emboldened by the support of the National Administration, the Southern leaders believed that they could carry their designs through, and, instead of being restrained by the protest or the advice of Republicans, they chose with apparent…