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The last one of the sinful ten has at last, with contempt and scorn, flung back in our teeth the magnanimous offer of a generous nation.
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Blaine criticizes the rejection of a generous offer by the Southern states after the Civil War.
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In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
In my judgment our sole authority for the acts which we have done during the last four years was the authority communicated to Congress by the Constitution to suppress insurrection.
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