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These revengeful partisans would leave their country a howling wilderness for the want of more victims to gratify their insatiable cruelty. . . .
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Blaine describes the destructive consequences of revengeful partisanship in the post-war South.
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The need of action and of energy so pressed upon him that he found no time to utter lamentation, none to indulge even in the most sacred personal grief.
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