They poisoned your fountains, put mines under your soldiers' prisons, organized bands whose leaders were concealed in your homes, and whose commissions ordered the torch to be carried to your cities, and the yellow-fever to your wives and children.
Blaine details the treacherous actions taken against U.S. soldiers and civilians during the conflict.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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