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Look where one will among the class of men of whom Washington was the highest representative, one finds that they believed the fountain head of the country's desperate conditions to be in the people themselves.
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Beveridge reflects on the belief that the struggles of the nation stem from the people's own actions and decisions.
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What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
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.
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.
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.
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