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The design was audacious, but from the stand-point of the men who were committed to it, it was not illogical.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “The design was audacious, but from the stand-point of the men who were committed to it, it was not illogical.”
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Blaine acknowledges the audacity and logic behind the Southern leaders' ambitious design for a new confederacy.
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