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Excellency and Accidency
March 8, 1866 issue

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No longer do the people trust unpledged electors to choose the fittest citizens of the republic to occupy the White House and preside over the U.S. Senate. They are also not content to ballot vaguely for the best interests of the State rather than for the success of favorite leaders, committed to well-known measures and policies. They dislike to incur the constant risk of a divided administration and of electors who should disappoint their expectations. Nevertheless the old way had advantages which cannot be depreciated and in theory it must be allowed to have been the more perfect and rational of the two.

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ELECTIONS; TRUST; REPUBLICS; UNITED States. Congress. Senate; UNITED States
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