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If the wild precipitation of the Southern leaders must be condemned, the compromising course of the majority in each branch of Congress will not escape censure,--censure for misjudgment, not for wrong intention.
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Blaine critiques both the Southern leaders and Congress for their respective roles in the lead-up to the Civil War.
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