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It permitted what was considered a grievous moral wrong to be upheld, if a majority of white men would vote in favor of upholding it.
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Blaine discusses the moral implications of majority rule in relation to slavery.
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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.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
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