This corrupt oligarchy, continued the orator, his face flushed and his eyes flashing with anger, intends through Hoffman to control the entire patronage of the State, and if Seymour is elected it will grasp that of the whole country.
Alexander warns of the dangers posed by a corrupt political oligarchy seeking to control state patronage.
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The evident purpose of the United States Bank was to create, if possible, the fear of a panic.
If Joel Weed lived as a beggar, Thurlow thought as a king.
He saw the importance of devoting the resources of the State to the reduction of its debt.
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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