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If the Democratic party as a whole had in the autumn of the year 1861 taken the ground which a considerable section of it assumed, it would have been impossible to conduct the war for the Union successfully.
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Blaine argues that a united Democratic party could have hindered the Union's war efforts in 1861.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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