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They had come to believe that the house divided against itself could not stand; that the Republic half slave, half free, could not endure.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “They had come to believe that the house divided against itself could not stand; that the Republic half slave, half free…”
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Blaine emphasizes the belief that a divided nation could not survive, highlighting the tensions between free and slave states.
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