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But when foreign governments recognized in the insurgents the rights of ocean belligerency, they went beyond the fact.
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Blaine critiques foreign governments for recognizing the Confederacy's rights during the Civil War.
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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
In my judgment our sole authority for the acts which we have done during the last four years was the authority communicated to Congress by the Constitution to suppress insurrection.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
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