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If this could be acquired they felt assured that so long as the Union should exist no free State could be admitted without the corresponding admission of another slave State.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “If this could be acquired they felt assured that so long as the Union should exist no free State could be admitted…”
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Blaine discusses the Southern strategy to ensure the admission of slave states alongside free states.
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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
And if Congress shall break up the present Union by unconstitutionally putting strife and enmity and armed hostility between different sections of the country, instead of the domestic tranquility which the Constitution was meant to insure…
Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
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