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The Republican Party found the Union a mass of sand; it left it a structure of granite.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “The Republican Party found the Union a mass of sand; it left it a structure of granite.”
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Boutwell asserts that the Republican Party transformed the Union from a weak state to a strong one.
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