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No single act of Jefferson's Administration is more discreditable than this untimely ending of a great career.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “No single act of Jefferson's Administration is more discreditable than this untimely ending of a great career.”
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Beveridge criticizes Jefferson's administration for its failure to support capable naval officers.
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No! but snatched from time, To bloom afresh in yonder sphere sublime.
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
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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