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Reading had made him a full man, talking a ready man, writing an exact man.
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Blaine summarizes the transformative power of reading on a person's character and communication skills.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
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.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
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