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We never thought that the remedy to get rid of a ruler would bring assassination into our political experience.
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Blaine reflects on the unexpected consequences of political conflict leading to assassination.
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Their pirates burned your unarmed commerce upon every sea.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
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