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For the one without qualification, against the other without reservation, was the rule of division from the northernmost township of New England to the mouths of the Mississippi.
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Blaine describes the clear political divisions in the country during the rivalry between Clay and Jackson.
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The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
As slavery had been the chief inciting cause of disunion, slavery should die.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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.
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