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Throughout the six States there was but one anxiety, one resolve,--anxiety for the safety of the government, resolve to subdue the revolt against it.
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Blaine reflects on the unified sentiment of the Northern states during the Civil War.
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It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
But in the treatment of the colored man, now proposed, there was absolute heartlessness and rank injustice.
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