They believed that the Congress of the United States would be guilty of a great wrong if it should unconditionally surrender its power to the men who demanded admission to peaceful control of the National only because they had failed to disrupt it by war.
Blaine warns that Congress would be wrong to surrender power to those who sought to disrupt it through war.
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