He knew when he wrote his letter that the Democrats would pledge themselves to the finality of the Compromise, and he knew the Southern Whigs would be overwhelmed if there should be halting or hesitation on this issue either in their candidate or in their platform.
Blaine discusses the strategic awareness of a political figure regarding the implications of their actions on party dynamics.
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Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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 believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
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