They maintain however that by the influence of a protective tariff the crisis was long postponed; that under the reign of free-trade it would have promptly followed the return of peace when the country was ill able to endure it.
Blaine discusses the impact of protective tariffs on economic crises in the United States.
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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.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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