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The problem of reconstructing the Union, and adapting its varied interests to its changed condition, demanded the highest administrative ability.
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Blaine highlights the challenges of reconstructing the Union after the Civil War, requiring exceptional administrative skills.
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Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
If this view of the subject be correct, as I think it is, then the Union must utterly perish at the moment when Congress shall arm one part of the people against another for any purpose beyond that of merely protecting the General…
All these provisions are made to protect the States, not to authorize an attack by one part of the country upon another; to preserve the peace, and not to plunge them into civil war.
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