There is something grim and pathetic in the picture of the rude awakening of this farmer governor, who, while working in his own weak way for harmony and conciliation, discovered, too late, that partisan rivalries and personal ambition had surrounded him with a cordon of enemies that could not be broken.
This passage poignantly describes the struggles of a governor caught in political rivalries and personal ambitions.
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He saw the importance of devoting the resources of the State to the reduction of its debt.
People were getting tired of bold action without achievement in the field, and every opponent of the Administration became a threnodist.
The evident purpose of the United States Bank was to create, if possible, the fear of a panic.
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