The time and the circumstances attending the negotiation of that treaty were unfavorable to its acceptance by the people of the United States, and its provisions were wholly inadequate for the settlement of the grave wrongs that had been sustained by this Government as well as by its citizens.
Blaine critiques the inadequacy of a treaty aimed at resolving U.S.-British claims.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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