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It is a personal party, whose controlling idea is predilection for a man, and not a principle.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is a personal party, whose controlling idea is predilection for a man, and not a principle.”
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Sumner critiques a political party's focus on personal loyalty rather than principles.
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