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It was, however, bad enough to stir the indignation of every lover of justice.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “It was, however, bad enough to stir the indignation of every lover of justice.”
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Blaine expresses the outrage felt by advocates of justice regarding the treatment of African Americans under the law.
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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
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