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Excitement and passion do not, however, always issue decrees and pronounce judgments of absolute right.
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Blaine reflects on the nature of judgment influenced by emotions rather than reason.
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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.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
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