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It came therefore as an original and a distinct question whether millions of people with their descendants for all time should be doomed to slavery or gifted with freedom.
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Blaine reflects on the moral implications of slavery and freedom during a pivotal moment in American history.
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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.
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