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Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
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Blaine points out that some Southern Union men fail to recognize their responsibilities.
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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.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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