On the record
He pronounced the measure a "fearful assault upon the public credit.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine criticizes a proposed measure as a significant threat to public credit.
Share
More from James Blaine
I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
Another theory and another practice were now to prevail; for it had been demonstrated to the thoughtful statesmen who then controlled the Government, that every thing which may be done by either Nation or State may be better and more…
The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
Other voices in this conversation
