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Forty years later, when he advocated the abolition of tolls, he found all his predictions more than verified.
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Alexander notes Seymour's successful predictions regarding the Erie Canal's impact on commerce.
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Thoughtful men who were not in any sense political partisans gave careful heed to his words.
It is not the bondholder, it is the office holder who sucks the blood of the people.
Why should we now make any concessions to them?
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
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