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I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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Blaine expresses confidence that a proposed bill will be widely supported by loyal citizens.
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Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
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