No department of the Government had to contend against so many corrupt combinations to rob the Government, and the slightest relaxation of vigilance on the part of the Commissioner might involve at any time a loss of millions to the National Treasury.
Blaine highlights the challenges faced by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in combating corruption.
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If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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