They enjoyed a climate as genial as that of the Italians who dwell on the slopes of the Apennines; they had forests more valuable than those that skirt the upper Rhine; they had mineral wealth as great as that which has given England her precedence in the manufacturing progress of the world.
Blaine praises the natural resources and climate of West Virginia, comparing them favorably to renowned regions in Italy and Germany.
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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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