But it was Seymour's firmness of mind, suavity of manner, unwearied patience, and incomparable temper, under a thousand provocations, that made it possible to pass the bill, substantially as he wrote it, by a vote of sixty-seven to thirty-eight.
Alexander praises Seymour's qualities that contributed to the successful passage of a significant bill despite challenges.
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Let us agree to put contentions aside and complete our task.
This reckless claim amazed his friends as much as it aroused his enemies, and he at once became the object of most cutting reproaches.
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.
Gross and unfounded charges of fraud are made by them against those high in authority.
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