Republican Party Candidate

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“I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].”
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“In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.”
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“The candidate tells us we are the “backbone of the State,” and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain endowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.”
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