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These complaints are utterly antagonistic, the one to the other; and this convention is called to say which is right.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “These complaints are utterly antagonistic, the one to the other; and this convention is called to say which is right.”
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Blaine points out the opposing complaints of white and black Southerners, indicating the purpose of the convention.
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