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They declared at the ballot-box, by untrammeled popular suffrage, that the war must go on.
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Blaine reflects on the determination of the American public during the Civil War.
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Their convention did more to popularize the Fourteenth Amendment as a political issue than any other instrumentality of the year.
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.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
Crises often arise in the conduct of National affairs when cherished opinions must be sacrificed and new departures taken.
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