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The same cause brought the same result a century later in men of the same blood fighting with equal valor the same battle of Constitutional liberty.
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Blaine draws a parallel between the struggles of past and present generations fighting for constitutional rights.
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Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
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