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Yet, notwithstanding this perfidy to all the principles of a true democracy, such was the external pressure brought to bear upon the members of the Democratic party, that but few of them abandoned its ranks.
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Mann discusses the pressures that kept many Democrats loyal to their party despite its betrayal of democratic principles.
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