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I do not think you were at liberty to humiliate me in the eyes of my own and your public as you did.
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Alexander criticizes the humiliation he felt from a public decision, emphasizing his sense of dignity.
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This Administration cannot now save this Union, if it would.
And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
Thoughtful men who were not in any sense political partisans gave careful heed to his words.
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