If, after all efforts at peace, war should be found unavoidable, the Administration had determined so to shape its policy, so to conduct its affairs, that when the shock came it should leave the South entirely in the wrong, and the government of the Union entirely in the right.
Blaine outlines the Administration's strategy to ensure that if war became unavoidable, the South would be seen as the aggressor.
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