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They murdered, by systems of starvation and exposure, sixty thousand of your sons as brave and heroic as ever martyrs were.
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Blaine highlights the tragic loss of life among U.S. soldiers due to starvation and exposure during the conflict.
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With whatever strength or prestige the President left Washington, he certainly returned to the Capital personally discredited and politically ruined.
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.
I am in no boastful mood: I shall not do more than I can, but I shall do all I can to save the Government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination.
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