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Not only therefore did the Confederacy introduce slaves as a component element of the military force, but it resorted to confiscation of a cruel and rigorous type as one of the sources of financial strength.
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Blaine discusses the financial strategies employed by the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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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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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property and aid the Courts in the performance of their duty.
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