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But he would not join in secession and turned from a supporter of slavery to be a radical Republican.
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Blaine reflects on an individual's political transformation during the Civil War era.
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Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
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.
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