If the South had been standing alone, if it had not been receiving daily words of encouragement, of aid, and of comfort, from the North, if it had not seen that the Democratic party in Congress was fighting its battle, it might have yielded to the prestige and power of the National Government.
Here, Blaine discusses the influence of Northern support on the South's resistance to federal authority after the Civil War.
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