That a party whose history was inwoven with the glory of the Republic should now come to its end in a quarrel over the status of the negro, in a region where his labor was not wanted, was, to many of its members, as incomprehensible as it was sorrowful and exasperating.
Blaine expresses the sorrow and frustration of party members over the Democratic party's decline over the issue of slavery.
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That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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