The self-restraint which the citizens of the Republic exhibited in the hour of need, the great burdens which they bore under the inspiration of patriotic duty, the public order which they maintained by their instinctive obedience to the command of law, all attest the good government of a self-governing people.
Blaine emphasizes the importance of civic responsibility and the rule of law in maintaining good governance.
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The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
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. . . .
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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