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Wrongfully applied, it is a weakness, an offense, a stumbling-block in the way of party prosperity.
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Blaine warns that a misused caucus can hinder a party's success and create obstacles.
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This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
The feeling in many portions of the country toward the emancipated slaves, especially among the ignorant and uneducated, is one of vindictive and malicious hatred.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
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