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They would have been brushed aside and disregarded with that cool indifference by which all great legislative bodies prove how easy it is to endure the misery of other people.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “They would have been brushed aside and disregarded with that cool indifference by which all great legislative bodies…”
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Blaine criticizes the indifference of legislative bodies towards the suffering of people during the Civil War.
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