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Even those who most decidedly differed from him followed him from one delegation to another allured by the charm of his words.
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Blaine notes the captivating nature of a politician's speeches, which drew in even those who disagreed with him.
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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…
But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
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