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England's acquisition of Louisiana would have proved in the highest degree embarrassing, if not disastrous, to the Union.
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Blaine warns that England's acquisition of Louisiana would have posed serious challenges for the Union.
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But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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.
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.
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