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If receding from the anti-slavery creed of the Republican party was intended as a conciliation to the South, the men who made the movement ought to have seen that it would prove ineffectual.
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Blaine argues that attempts to appease the South by abandoning anti-slavery principles were misguided and ineffective.
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