Throughout the whole ran the thread of one distinct proposition,--that the Republican party had sinned away its day of grace, and that the patriotic work of the Democratic party must begin at once if the Union was to be saved.
This statement encapsulates the central argument that the Democratic party must take action to save the Union.
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He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.
A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....
More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics.
In his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires....
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