The complete pacification of the country on the basis of equal and exact justice was the leading desire of all right-minded men, and the free suffrage which this implied would give to the Republicans the opportunity for a fair trial of strength in the advocacy of their principles before the Southern people.
Blaine emphasizes the importance of equal justice and free suffrage for the Republicans to engage with Southern voters.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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