That prejudice should stand in the way of principle, that subsidiary issues should embarrass the attainment of great ends, that personal and partisan interests should for a time override the nobler instincts of philanthropy, must be regarded with regret, but not with discouragement.
Blaine expresses regret over how personal and partisan interests can hinder the pursuit of greater humanitarian goals.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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