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The extent of its degradation is seen in the frauds it has perpetrated to influence this election.
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He condemns the fraudulent actions taken to influence an election, highlighting the extent of political corruption.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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