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He plainly warned them that every thing was at stake and that if they were unwilling to meet the trial with the courage and the sacrifice demanded, they were foredoomed to disaster, to defeat, to dishonor.
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Blaine highlights Lincoln's warning about the stakes involved in the Civil War.
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