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They are engines of oppression against all loyal men.
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Blaine describes certain governments as oppressive towards loyal citizens.
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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. . . .
It is to the eminent credit of the Republican members of Congress that they stood in a crisis of this magnitude true to principle, firm against all the power and all the patronage of the Administration.
If you are not ready to be the Moses of an oppressed people, do not become their Pharaoh.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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