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Lincoln presents a strong contrast with his predecessors,--Pierce and Buchanan,--illustrating afresh the contradiction that the party declaiming most loudly against Executive power has constantly abused it.
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Blaine points out the irony that the party most vocal against executive power has often misused it, using Lincoln as a key example.
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I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
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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Their success as civil magistrates, as legislators, as executives was not less marked and meritorious than their illustrious service in war.
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