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Of representative assemblies may not this good be said: That contending parties in a country do thereby ascertain one another's strength? They fight there, since fight they must, by petition, parliamentary eloquence, not by sword, bayonet and bursts of military cannon.
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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