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He was an accurate man and always discharged his senatorial duties with care and fidelity.
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Blaine commends the diligence and thoroughness of a senator in fulfilling his duties.
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He had placed himself in a position from which he could not with grace retreat, and to go forward in which was still further to blight his hopes of promotion in his party.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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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