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If the treaty-making power can buy, they can sell.
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Blaine warns against the implications of the treaty-making power's ability to buy and sell territory.
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Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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.
Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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