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He exhibited an exceptional clearness of statement and power of analysis.
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Blaine praises the clarity and analytical skills of a political figure, indicating their effectiveness in communication.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
In turn, the course of the National Administration would certainly be influenced, and its fate in large degree determined, by the conduct of the Southern men, in whom the President was placing unbounded trust.
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.
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.
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