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Eighty years made the Republic such a power, that if she had continued as she was a few years longer she would have been the great bully of the world. . . .
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “Eighty years made the Republic such a power, that if she had continued as she was a few years longer she would have been…”
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Blaine warns of the potential consequences of America's power if it had remained unchanged.
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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.
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
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