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The Declaration of Independence by the British Colonies in America was something more than the creation of a new sovereignty.
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Blaine reflects on the significance of the Declaration of Independence beyond merely establishing sovereignty.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
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.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
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