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No cause is more potent than the prodigious capacity of machinery set in motion by the agency of steam.
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Blaine highlights the significant impact of steam-powered machinery on production capacity.
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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
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