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Does he not know that such notes must be dishonored, and the plighted faith of the government be broken?
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Blaine questions the integrity of a proposal that would lead to dishonored notes.
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Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
The Northern people shrank from the responsibility of transferring the government of States to the control of men who had already shown themselves capable of desperate deeds.
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