Fernando Wood, until recently planning to make New York an independent city, now declared the past buried, with its political associations and sympathies, and pledged the municipality, its money and its men, to the support of the Union.
This statement marks a significant political shift for Fernando Wood, reflecting changing allegiances during the Civil War.
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This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
The heart of the country is fixed on higher and nobler things.
It is not the bondholder, it is the office holder who sucks the blood of the people.
But Tilden, conscious of the need of an anti-Tweed legislature, had surmised the Ring's plan as early as Tweed devised it, and he replied with firmness that everything beside the legislative ticket was of minor importance to him.
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