The usurpation indeed will continue and increase. The national agitation will be deepened. The spirit that rebelled, and is still defiant, will be quickened into still more baleful activity. The country will move one step nearer to breaking its pecuniary faith with its creditors and its moral faith with the freedmen. The heart of every lover of liberty and of free institutions in the world will ache as he watches the results of the great victory of civilization delayed.
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