The organic law would not have been strained, legal fictions would not have been invented, contradictory theories would not have been indulged, if a great national interest had not demanded the creation of West Virginia.
Blaine discusses the legal and moral implications surrounding the creation of West Virginia during the Civil War.
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This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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