On the record
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
Source
gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.”
Editor's note · Context
Blaine describes the ideological split between radical and conservative factions during the post-war period.
Share
More from James Blaine
But what if the feeling in any State against the United States should become so universal that the Federal officers themselves (including judges, district attorneys, and marshals) would be reached by the same influences, and resign their…
You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the Courts in the performance of their duty.
If this view of the subject be correct, as I think it is, then the Union must utterly perish at the moment when Congress shall arm one part of the people against another for any purpose beyond that of merely protecting the General…
Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
Other voices in this conversation
