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Every Government finds by practice the system of legislation and administration best adapted to its own wants.
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Blaine reflects on the adaptability of government systems through practical experience.
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Observing men in the loyal States regarded such a policy not only as weak and maudlin, but as utterly insufficient and assuredly dangerous to the future safety of the Government.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
The haste with which the question was brought to a decision can hardly be justified, and is a striking illustration of the intense party-feeling which had been engendered by the war.
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