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Sumner from his place had been determined in a caucus of Republican senators, and never was the power of the caucus more wrongfully applied.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “Sumner from his place had been determined in a caucus of Republican senators, and never was the power of the caucus more…”
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Blaine argues that the caucus system was misused in the decision to remove Sumner from his position.
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Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
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