The effects of this thoroughly organized system of so-called neutrality that supplied ports, ships, arms, and men to a belligerent which had none, are not matters of conjecture or exaggeration; they have been proven and recorded.
Blaine emphasizes the tangible consequences of a system that provided support to a belligerent during conflict.
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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.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
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