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With me, the party was country and mankind; but with the adoption of all these Presidential pretensions the party loses its distinctive character and drops from its sphere.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “With me, the party was country and mankind; but with the adoption of all these Presidential pretensions the party loses…”
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Sumner argues that the party's identity is compromised by personal ambitions.
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