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Even a suggestion for its amelioration was regarded as dangerous to the safety of the State and to the sacredness of the family.
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Blaine points out that any suggestion to improve the conditions of slavery was seen as a threat by Southern states.
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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.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
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.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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