Seldom in the history of the country has a weightier question been submitted to popular arbitrament; seldom has a popular decision been evoked which was destined to exercise so far-reaching an influence upon the progress of the nation, upon the prosperity of the people.
Blaine emphasizes the significance of a political decision in shaping the nation's future.
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If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
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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