Perhaps it would be more truthful to say that the ambitions and conspiring politicians of the South had assumed the danger to this vast investment as the pretext for destroying the Government; and they had met with the fate so solemnly foretold in Sacred Writ,--they had drawn the sword and perished by the sword.
Blaine critiques Southern politicians for using the protection of their investments as a justification for rebellion.
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