His argument was the one skillfully employed by all who seek an adjustment between those who ought to be friends: Let each party give way a little; let a common ground of action be established; and, above all, let the calamity of a party division be averted.
Blaine discusses the need for compromise and unity among political factions to prevent division.
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Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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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