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The peace which followed was the peace of forced submission and not the peace of contentment.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “The peace which followed was the peace of forced submission and not the peace of contentment.”
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Blaine describes the nature of peace following a conflict as one of forced submission rather than true contentment.
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