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He knew he had blundered in opposing an electoral law, and he now proposed giving the Legislature another opportunity to enact one.
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This quote illustrates a political figure's recognition of his past mistakes and his desire to rectify them through legislative action.
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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.
And what have I to lose by withdrawing and leaving the party unembarrassed?
Indeed, he went a step farther in the way of irreconciliation, preferring Hoffman and Tammany, he said, to "the reckless, red-radicalism which rules the present Congress....
Thoughtful men who were not in any sense political partisans gave careful heed to his words.
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