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Yet Tilden's guiding hand, with infallible sagacity, placed New York's thirty-three votes on Indiana and absolutely refused to move them.
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Alexander highlights Tilden's decisive influence in the political landscape of the time.
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Its attitude was strong, defiant, and its only purpose apparently was to create a public sentiment hostile to the extension of slavery.
Why should we now make any concessions to them?
And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
No, Sirs! we know very little of the art of war, and General Scott a great deal.
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