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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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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “If the Democratic party as a whole had in the autumn of the year 1861 taken the ground which a considerable section of…”
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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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