Palliation, conciliation, concession, compromise, were the only words heard, and the almost universal opinion in the South, shared largely by the North, was that to precipitate war would be to abandon the last hope for restoration of the Union.
Blaine describes the prevailing sentiment in both the North and South regarding the potential for war.
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