We are so familiar with the vast sums which the war against the Rebellion caused the National Government to disburse, that it is difficult to appreciate the spirit with which the legislators of 1861 approached the impending burdens.
Blaine reflects on the difficulty of understanding the financial burdens faced by legislators in 1861 due to the scale of the war's costs.
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The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
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