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The terror of the South at the bare prospect of a negro insurrection led many who had not before studied the slavery question to give serious heed to this phase of it.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “The terror of the South at the bare prospect of a negro insurrection led many who had not before studied the slavery…”
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Blaine notes that the fear of a slave insurrection prompted many to reconsider their views on slavery.
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You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the Courts in the performance of their duty.
All these provisions are made to protect the States, not to authorize an attack by one part of the country upon another; to preserve the peace, and not to plunge them into civil war.
The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
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