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No test of a man's power is more severe than the demand made by a daily newspaper.
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Blaine reflects on the challenges faced by individuals in the newspaper industry.
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The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
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 wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
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