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Whatever the Vice President knew, or thought he knew, was poured into those eighty pages with a staggering fulness and disregard of consequences that startled the political world and captivated all lovers of the brilliant and sensational in literature.
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De Alexander
Republican · New York

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This passage describes the overwhelming and sensational nature of a pamphlet's content, which captivated the political world.

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