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He had positively declared against the use of official patronage in elections and removed himself from all temptation by giving the voluntary pledge that if elected he would not be a candidate for a second term.
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Blaine discusses a candidate's commitment to avoiding the use of political patronage during elections.
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In my judgment our sole authority for the acts which we have done during the last four years was the authority communicated to Congress by the Constitution to suppress insurrection.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
An avenging God cannot sleep while such things find countenance.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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