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Public attention may be temporarily engrossed by some exigent subject of controversy, but the tariff alone steadily and persistently recurs for agitation, and for what is termed settlement.
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Blaine argues that tariff issues consistently re-emerge in political discussions despite other controversies.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
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