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Whether one man could hold property in another was a question which took deep hold of the consciences of men, and was either right or wrong in itself.
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Blaine reflects on the moral implications of property ownership and slavery.
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In my judgment our sole authority for the acts which we have done during the last four years was the authority communicated to Congress by the Constitution to suppress insurrection.
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.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
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