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It would be unjust to the Republicans to say that they demanded military aid with the remotest intention of controlling any man's vote.
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Blaine defends the Republicans' intentions regarding military aid during elections, asserting their integrity.
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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.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
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