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But the plea carried with it a national guaranty and protection of slavery on the southern side of the line, and its effect would inevitably have been in a few years to divide the Republic from ocean to ocean.
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Blaine warns about the potential consequences of a proposed compromise that would protect slavery, highlighting its divisive nature.
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I am in no boastful mood: I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the Government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
The deep-seated prejudice against color is assiduously cultivated by the public journals and leads to acts of cruelty, oppression, and murder, which the local authorities are at no pains to prevent or punish.
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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