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The great body of thinking men in the North saw that the real contest impending was against slavery and not against naturalization laws and ecclesiastical dogmas.
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Blaine asserts that the true political struggle was against slavery rather than other social issues.
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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.
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.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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