This law would destroy all State power over the subject; and the man who offended in the matter of marriage between the races, so far from being punished himself, could bring the judge who attempted to enforce the law against him into punishment.
Blaine discusses the implications of a law affecting state power and interracial marriage.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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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