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For the first and only time in our political history, an administration conducting a war victorious at every step, steadily lost ground in the country.
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Blaine comments on the paradox of a victorious administration losing public support during a war, a unique situation in American politics.
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Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
The wonder excited by the raising of the vast army which saved the Union from destruction was even surpassed by the wonder excited by its prompt and peaceful dissolution.
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.
In all the revolted states, upon the testimony of your ablest generals, there is no safety to the property or lives of loyal men.
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