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His influence in aid of the finances of the government in its early period of depression was given without stint and was of incalculable value.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “His influence in aid of the finances of the government in its early period of depression was given without stint and was…”
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Blaine acknowledges the crucial financial support provided by a prominent merchant during the government's early struggles.
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All these provisions are made to protect the States, not to authorize an attack by one part of the country upon another; to preserve the peace, and not to plunge them into civil war.
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.
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