Suppose this offensive ring, with its unfinished courthouse and its thousand other schemes of robbery and plunder, controls the political power of the State and nation as it now dominates the metropolis, what honest Democrat can charge corruption to the opposite party?
Alexander questions the integrity of Democrats if they allow a corrupt ring to dominate political power.
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Thoughtful men who reverenced the safeguard known to civil judicial proceedings were appalled.
And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
This reduced the question to ratification or secession.
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
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