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But it must not be forgotten that the sword of precedent cut both ways.
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Blaine warns that legal precedents can have dual implications, affecting both sides in a dispute.
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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.
Durant speaks of no duty, apparently thinks of none resting upon Southern Union men.
Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
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