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This not only threatened the freedom of election, but itself brought a corrupting influence into the Administration of the Government.
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Hoar argues that corruption threatens electoral freedom and the integrity of government administration.
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The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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