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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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that it is Jefferson v Washington they follow in fact one of them talking about it being a good thing if they could bring up some of their old statesmen from the dead I suggested it would be a grand thing if they could bring up Washington "Ah we are not sure whether he would vote right" was the answer I got. The Democrats are really in favour of a very revolutionary theory that is they say the governed must be entirely the judges of their rulers, if they think it for their advantage to break away from them they are justified in so doing, surely no government of stability could subsist on these condition. I should not trust their policy in Mexico
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that it is Jefferson v Washington they follow in fact one of them talking about it being a good thing if they could bring up some of their old statesmen from the dead I suggested it would be a grand thing if they could bring up Washington "Ah we are not sure whether he would vote right" was the answer I got. The Democrats are really in favour of a very revolutionary theory that is they say the governed must be entirely the judges of their rulers, if they think it for their advantage to break away from them they are justified in so doing, surely no government of stability could subsist on these condition. I should not trust their policy in Mexico
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