With the prejudices which inspired the South,--prejudices made still more intense by the victory of the Union,--it was altogether certain that the Southern Conventions would not extend the elective franchise or civil right of any kind to the colored men of any class.
Blaine discusses the entrenched prejudices in the South that would hinder civil rights for African Americans.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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