It might be difficult to determine which displayed the greater folly--those who made false representations, or those who, warned by previous deception, appeared so ready to be influenced anew by deception equally gross.
Blaine reflects on the folly of both deceivers and those who fall for deception in political discourse.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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