Starting out deliberately for the Presidential nomination, his plan embraced three leading features: his stepping stone was the governorship, his shibboleth was administrative reform, his method was organization to a degree which has never been surpassed.
Blaine outlines his strategic approach to securing the presidential nomination, emphasizing reform and organization.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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