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Pretending to herald a new era in our politics in which the people were to take the helm and expel demagogues and traders from the ship, it reduced political swindling to the certainty and system of a science.
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Julian critiques the Know-Nothing party for pretending to reform politics while actually systematizing corruption.
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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.
They thus undermine the morals of the people, and pave the way for violence and crime.
They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
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