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The spirit with which the President and Congress proceeded in that depressing and depressed period proved invaluable to the country.
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Blaine emphasizes the importance of the leadership during a challenging time for the nation.
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An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
In my judgment our sole authority for the acts which we have done during the last four years was the authority communicated to Congress by the Constitution to suppress insurrection.
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.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
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