The government would thus be largely benefitted, and its cause would be strengthened by the silent influence of self-interest which would certainly be developed by the general distribution of its bonds as the basis of a national currency.
Blaine asserts that distributing government bonds would strengthen the national currency through self-interest.
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I have long since wished that capital punishment were abolished.
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.
The wisdom of maintaining that institution was abundantly vindicated by the results of the war.
He was a lawyer in full practice, a man of the highest integrity, without fear and without reproach.
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