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The fact that the rebellion fails is the full warrant for its guilty authors to be at once repossessed of all the rights and all the privileges which in the frenzy of anger and disobedience they had thrown away.
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Blaine asserts that the failure of rebellion should not automatically restore rights to its instigators.
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