What the country needed was not a stricter enforcement of party discipline, not military methods and the fostering of sectional hate, but oblivion of the past, and an earnest, intelligent, and catholic endeavor to grapple with the questions of practical administration.
Julian advocates for a forward-looking approach to governance, emphasizing reconciliation and practical administration.
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If it had been morally possible, I would have supported him gladly.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
The times are bad, and want curing; They are getting past all enduring; Let us turn out Martin Van Buren, And put in old Tippecanoe.
It tempts civilized men to become savages and savages to become devils.
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