The President insisted that the injured party should appeal to the aggressor, and then to the courts, with the reserved right of revolution always in view and to be exercised if neither the aggressor nor the courts furnished satisfactory redress.
Blaine outlines the President's stance on how grievances should be addressed by states.
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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.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
I am in no boastful mood: I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the Government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
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