The vast number of the National offices has ceased to be a menace to the safety of the Republic and has ceased to be a source of strength to the Administration in power, or to become the price or reward of political activity.
He asserts that national offices should serve the public rather than be used for political gain.
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His election as Governor extracted the people from the mire of Know Nothingism.
But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.
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.
When the treaty was signed, the struggle began between freedom and slavery for the control of this imperial domain.
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