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No man had suffered more of personal obloquy from the South than he, no one living had received deeper personal injury from the demoniac spirit, the wicked inspiration of the rebellion.
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Blaine highlights the personal sacrifices and injuries faced by a man due to the conflict with the South.
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He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
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.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
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