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The acquisition of Louisiana, the purchase of Florida, the Mexican war, were all great national movements which resulted in strengthening the slave power.
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Blaine lists key historical events that he believes strengthened the institution of slavery in the United States.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
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