At a great epoch of history, not less momentous than that of the French Revolution or that of the Reformation, when civilization was fighting a last battle with slavery, England gave her influence, her material resources, to the wicked cause, and flung a sword into the scale with slavery.
Blaine draws a parallel between England's actions during the Civil War and significant historical events like the French Revolution.
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The two schools in short marked the dividing line between the radical and the conservative.
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.
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