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The one objective point proclaimed in the address, repeated in the resolutions, echoed and re-echoed by every speaker, both in the Northern and Southern Conventions, was the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Blaine highlights the centrality of the Fourteenth Amendment in political discourse during the conventions.
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