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The duties have been mine, the consequences God's." Senator John P.
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Blaine emphasizes the weight of responsibility in leadership, acknowledging divine influence over outcomes.
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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.
The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
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