Blaine of Maine expressed his unwillingness to support any measure that would place the South under military government, if it did not at the same time prescribe the methods by which the people of a State could by their own action re-establish civil government.
Blaine articulates his reluctance to support military governance in the South without a clear path to civil government.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
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