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Timid, vacillating, credulous, unjustly suspicious when approached by his prejudices, he has allowed the sacrifice of that confiding party which has had no honours too high to confer upon him.
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This is the spirit in which I have determined for myself to come up to this great question, and to pass through it.
Let us agree to put contentions aside and complete our task.
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....
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