He had on all occasions zealously defended the rights of labor; he had waged unsparing war on the evils of intemperance; he had made himself an oracle with the American farmers; and his influence was even more potent in the remote prairie homes than within the shadow of Printing-House Square.
Blaine outlines the advocacy and influence of a prominent figure on labor rights and farmers.
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It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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