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Their policy, in short, seemed to have the interests of the guilty authors of the Rebellion more at heart than the safety of the Union.
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Blaine critiques the Democratic Party's priorities during the Reconstruction era, emphasizing their focus on the interests of former Confederates over the Union's safety.
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