While it might seem extravagant to ascribe the revolution which convulsed the country to an event so disconnected and apparently so inadequate, it is nevertheless true that the sudden furor which seized a large number of the Southern people came directly from that event.
Blaine reflects on the significant impact of a specific event on the revolutionary sentiments in the South.
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In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
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