The founders of the government not only looked to the speedy extinction of slavery, but they especially abhorred the idea of a geographical line, with freedom decreed on one side, and slavery established on the other.
Blaine emphasizes the founders' intentions to abolish slavery and their aversion to dividing the nation by a geographical line.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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