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The national character "is degenerated into a system of stock-jobbing, extortion and usury....
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “The national character "is degenerated into a system of stock-jobbing, extortion and usury....”
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Beveridge critiques the moral decline of the national character in his time, emphasizing economic corruption.
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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.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.
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