He thought rather that works meet for repentance should be shown by these offenders against the law both of God and man, that they should be held to account in some form for the peril with which they had menaced the Nation, and for the agony they had inflicted upon her loyal sons.
Blaine argues that offenders against the nation should be held accountable for their actions during the war.
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