He had on all occasions zealously defended the rights of labor; he had waged unsparing war on the evils of intemperance; he had made himself an oracle with the American farmers; and his influence was even more potent in the remote prairie homes than within the shadow of Printing-House Square.
Blaine outlines the advocacy and influence of a prominent figure on labor rights and farmers.
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Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
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