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The point had been reached where it was necessary to go forward or go backward; where the Confederacy must assert itself, or the experiment of secession be abandoned.
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Blaine emphasizes the critical moment for the Confederacy to assert itself during the Civil War.
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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