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The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.
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Julian reflects on the transient nature of the political movement of 1840, highlighting its underlying significance despite its chaotic surface.
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The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real need of the hour; but here was the weak point of the Whigs.
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.
They seemed totally unconscious of the fact that human nature is essentially the same in all parties, and that a mere change of men without any change of system would be fruitless.
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
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