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The country did not revive, or prosperity re-appear, until the protective tariff of 1824 was enacted.
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Blaine emphasizes the importance of the protective tariff of 1824 in reviving the economy after a period of depression.
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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.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
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.
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