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Confidence, the plant of slowest growth, had been destroyed.
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Blaine discusses the fragility of trust in the political climate of the time.
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The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
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