If any doubt heretofore existed as to the right of coercing a State, or upon whom rested the responsibility for beginning the war, or who were the real enemies of the Union, or where prominent members of the Democratic party would stand, it had now disappeared.
This quote asserts the clarity of the Union's position and the responsibilities of various factions at the onset of the Civil War.
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