On the record
The events of the preceding year were too fresh, the wounds too deep, to be readily forgotten or quickly healed.
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Blaine emphasizes the lasting impact of recent events on the political landscape.
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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.
Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
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