Every Senator knew how patronage and all forms of Executive inducement and coercion had been used by the Administration in the passage of most important measures--the Judiciary repeal, the Pickering impeachment, the Yazoo compromise, the trial of Chase.
Beveridge reflects on the influence of executive patronage on Senate decisions, emphasizing the corrupting power of political favors.
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That time, however, is unquestionably arrived, and every oppression now exercised on a helpless people depending on our magnanimity and justice for the preservation of their existence impresses a deep stain on the American character.
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
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