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After nearly four years of a most expensive and wasting war, the means to continue it seem apparently undiminished, while the determination to prosecute it with vigor to the end is unabated.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “After nearly four years of a most expensive and wasting war, the means to continue it seem apparently undiminished…”
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Blaine remarks on the continued resources and resolve of the nation to pursue the war despite its costs.
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