The opportunity for relief came from remote and foreign causes, without our own agency; but the courageous statesmanship which discerned and grasped the opportunity, deserved, as it has received, the commemoration of three generations.
Blaine acknowledges the role of courageous statesmanship in seizing opportunities for national relief.
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Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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