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While these motives and aims are intelligible, it seems utterly incredible that not one of the senators gave a specification of the wrongs which led the South to her rash step.
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Blaine expresses disbelief that senators did not specify the wrongs that led to the South's decision to secede.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
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