Hence the resort to the doctrine of non-intervention under which the South should get all they wished by having the right to carry their slaves into the territory, and the North could be conciliated by the presentation of another final settlement of all issues which threatened the perpetuity of the Union.
Blaine discusses the political strategy used to address the contentious issue of slavery in the territories.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
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