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Lincoln united firmness and gentleness in a singular degree.
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Blaine highlights Lincoln's unique blend of strength and compassion.
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An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
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He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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