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A military autocracy controlling people who were engaged in the ordinary avocations of life was altogether contrary to his views of expediency, altogether repugnant to his conceptions of right.
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Blaine critiques the idea of a military dictatorship, advocating for civil governance instead.
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It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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