Colonization would deprive us of this much needed labor, would entail vast expense in the deportation of the negroes, and would devolve upon this country, by a moral responsibility which it could not avoid, the protection and maintenance of the feeble government which would be planted on the shores of Africa.
Blaine highlights the moral and financial implications of deporting freed slaves to Africa.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
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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