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The spectacle was a melancholy one, since it demonstrated the readiness of this once respectable old party to make complete shipwreck of everything wearing the semblance of principle, for the sake of success.
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Julian laments the Whig Party's abandonment of principles in favor of electoral success.
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I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.
The people took the work of politics into their own keeping, and the leaders became followers.
It was a confession of Congressional incompetence to deal with a problem which Congress alone had the right to solve.
The efforts to belittle his merits and defile his good name became systematic, and degenerated into the most unpardonable personal abuse and political defamation.
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