It is difficult to compute the loss and the suffering endured by the South from the folly of rejecting a Constitutional Amendment, which they could have had with all its benefits, and which they were compelled afterwards to accept with all its burdens.
Blaine reflects on the consequences faced by the South for rejecting the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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