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Yet his sub-treasury measure, so beneficent in its aims that its theory was not lost in the necessities growing out of the Civil War, proved the strongest weapon in the armory of his opponents.
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Alexander reflects on the long-term impact of Van Buren's sub-treasury measure on political opposition.
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