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They stood stubbornly, solidly, without reason, without justification, against a great enlargement of popular rights.
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Blaine criticizes the stubbornness of certain groups resisting the expansion of rights for the populace.
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Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
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