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It is an ingenious wriggle and twist; but so far as the writer succeeds in getting off the platform, it is only to run upon other difficulties,--as from Scylla to Charybdis.
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Sumner describes the complexities and pitfalls of trying to navigate political platforms and their implications.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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