This being the condition of the two great parties which divided the country, it was evident that the acquisition of territory from Mexico must lead to an agitation of the slavery question, of which no man could measure the extent, or foresee the consequences.
Blaine reflects on the political tensions surrounding the issue of slavery and territorial expansion during the Mexican War.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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.
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