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More than that it was Blaine's long look ahead.
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Alexander acknowledges Blaine's foresight in political matters.
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And is it not needed when its taking helps us and hurts our enemy?
No, Sirs! we know very little of the art of war, and General Scott a great deal.
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....
Perhaps, on the whole, nothing in Van Buren's official life showed greater political courage or discernment.
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