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They accepted as their leader the man who proclaimed these truths.
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Blaine notes that the North accepted a leader who articulated their beliefs about the nation's future.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
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