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If the government goes down, there is not a considerable bank in America that does not go down with it.
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Blaine warns of the interconnectedness of government stability and the banking system, emphasizing the risks involved.
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
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