All the enmities and exasperations which began in the memorable contest for the Presidency when John Quincy Adams was chosen, and had grown into great proportions during the long intervening period, were fought out on the angry field of 1844.
Blaine describes the long-standing political enmities that culminated in the 1844 presidential election.
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