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The Confederates had failed in war, but their leaders had not the moral courage to accept the only practicable peace.
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Blaine reflects on the moral failures of Confederate leaders after their defeat in the Civil War.
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Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
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