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Is this what the loyal North has been fighting for?
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “Is this what the loyal North has been fighting for?”
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Blaine questions whether the sacrifices made by the North during the Civil War were worth it given the current state of affairs.
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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
But what if the feeling in any State against the United States should become so universal that the Federal officers themselves (including judges, district attorneys, and marshals) would be reached by the same influences, and resign their…
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.
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
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