His warfare against those who would suppress free speech, his heroic contest in favor of the right of the humblest to petition for redress of grievances, are among the memorable events in the parliamentary history of the United States.
Blaine commemorates an individual's fight for free speech and the right to petition, marking them as pivotal moments in U.S. parliamentary history.
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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.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
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