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But had he and you been favourable, there would have been a party in the State ere this which could and would have elected me to any post, without injuring itself or endangering your re-election.
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Alexander argues that with the right support, he could have been elected without harming the party's interests.
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The heart of the country is fixed on higher and nobler things.
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.
This reckless claim amazed his friends as much as it aroused his enemies, and he at once became the object of most cutting reproaches.
And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
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