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We were engaged therefore in a threefold contest,--a military one with the Confederacy, and diplomatic and moral one with the governments of England and France, a financial one with the money power of Europe.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “We were engaged therefore in a threefold contest,--a military one with the Confederacy, and diplomatic and moral one…”
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Blaine describes the multifaceted challenges faced by the Union during the Civil War, including military and financial struggles.
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Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
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But what if the feeling in any State against the United States should become so universal that the Federal officers themselves (including judges, district attorneys, and marshals) would be reached by the same influences, and resign their…
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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