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In the long and arduous battle against the aggressions of Slavery, he had been sleepless and untiring in rousing and quickening the public conscience.
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Blaine reflects on the relentless efforts of a figure in the fight against slavery and for public awareness.
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In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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