The personal attractions of the man, his dignity of manner, his finished culture, and his ability to speak often in debate with acceptance, had before attracted men to him; now he was to reveal the new and greater power of leadership.
This passage reflects on the personal attributes that drew people to a leader and his emerging influence.
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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....
It is not the bondholder, it is the office holder who sucks the blood of the people.
If Joel Weed lived as a beggar, Thurlow thought as a king.
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