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They dealt wholly in the finding of new guaranties for slavery, without attempting to intimate the possible necessity of new guaranties for freedom.
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Blaine criticizes the focus on guaranteeing slavery without considering the need for freedom guarantees.
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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.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
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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