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There is already danger that the operations of the Tweeds and Goulds in New York may be repeated on a more gigantic scale at the National capital.
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Hoar raises concerns about potential corruption at the national level similar to past events in New York.
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The irrepressible conflict had to be fought out.
His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
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