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Confidences were revealed, conversations made public, quarrels uncovered, political secrets given up, and the gossip of Council and Legislature churned into a story that pleased every one.
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Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
And, Governor Seward, I have made it, though it be conceited in me to say so.
I discerned also unmistakable evidences of stern integrity, earnest patriotism, and unswerving fidelity.
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