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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....
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This quote reveals the political divisions of the time, illustrating a preference for conservative values over radicalism.
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