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There was never a community of the face of the globe whose condition so little justified revolution as that of the slave States in the year 1860.
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Blaine reflects on the lack of justification for revolution in the slave states during 1860.
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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.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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. . . .
The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
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