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I love justice and fair play, and I think I know enough of the American people to know that ninety-nine hundredths of the men who elected this administration in 1868 will disapprove this act." Mr.
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Blaine reflects on the principles of justice and the sentiments of the American electorate regarding a controversial act.
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As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
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.
With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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