If I find it does continue to be a State after that, then I shall strive to ascertain whether it will so continue to be a Government--a State--after, by means of universal treason, it has ceased to have any constitution, laws, legislatures, courts, or citizens in it.
Blaine questions the status of a government that has lost its constitutional framework due to treason.
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