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Not one great beneficent law has been placed on our statute books without his intelligent and powerful aid.
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Sherman credits Blaine's contributions to significant legislation that has benefited the nation.
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Confiscation is not only justified by the laws of war, by the practice of many nations, but it is practiced by our enemies in the most obnoxious way.
Some of you broke down the only political organization that could compete with us, and thus gave us an easy victory.
The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
God forbid that the despots of the Old World should ever adorn their infernal logic by pointing to a disrupted Union here!
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