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The misfortune was, that the mistakes blinded the eyes of many candid and patriotic men to the real merit of the struggle.
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Blaine notes how the mistakes of the Reconstruction era obscured the true merits of the struggle for civil rights.
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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.
The right of the General Government to preserve itself in its whole constitutional vigor by repelling a direct and positive aggression upon its property or its officers cannot be denied.
You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the Courts in the performance of their duty.
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.
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