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Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world, its beloved history and cherished memories are vindicated, its happy future assured and rendered inconceivably grand.
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Blaine envisions a future where the government is preserved and its history vindicated after overcoming current challenges.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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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