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Therefore Clay is called the father of the American System, he was the advocate, not of any local interests, but the interests of the country as a whole, thus establishing his claim to be a statesman rather than a politician who never looks beyond local and transient interests, and is especially subservient to party dictation.

By his jaunty stride and his air of excessive joviality the mark of the successful local politician Stephen recognized Julius Gershom, the campaign-maker, as people called him, who had stood behind Gideon Vetch from the beginning of his career. "What an unconscionable bounder the fellow is," thought Stephen as he passed him.

My political life is ended, and I am the survivor of myself, or rather the troubled ghost of a politician, that am condemned to haunt the field of battle where I fell. Whether the government will long outlive me is doubtful. I know it is sick, and, many of the physicians say, of a mortal disease.

The reporter thereupon dodged into the bar to escape the grins of some of the office crew, and his haste was such that he nearly beat the baize doors into the face of Richard Dodd, who was coming out. "You're the first real politician I've seen in this bunch," affirmed the reporter. "What's it all about?" "What's what about?" "This convention that's assembling here."

Then, you know, there was the luncheon to-day and I fancied that he was a little flippant about the labour vote. It was perhaps only his way of speaking." Mr. Bullsom smiled and rubbed the carriage window with the cuff of his coat. He was very hungry. "Oh, well, a politician has to trim a little, you know," he remarked. "Votes he must have, and Henslow has a very good idea how to get them.

Though Lincoln did prove that he knew "the tricks and trades of the politician" he was true to his convictions; as shown by the fact that, when the legislature passed resolutions "highly disapproving" of the formation of abolition societies and the doctrines promulgated by them, he voted against the resolutions; and furthermore he drew up a protest against the resolutions, and inducing his colleague, Dan Stone, to sign it with him, had his protest entered on the journal for March 3, 1837.

Does the degree and direction of the instinct markedly differ among different individuals or races, or between the two sexes?" This puts the argument upon a plane where discussion is relevant. This is no trumped-up issue: it is asked by a politician and a socialist seeking for a real solution.

At this rate Tom Jones might be judged inferior to Joseph Andrews, because the Political Apothecary in the "Man of the Hill's" story has his prototype in the Coffee-House Politician, whose original is Addison's Upholsterer.

"Any friend of yours will be welcome. But I own the articles signed in the name of Pierre Firmin do not prepossess me in favour of their author." "Why so?" asked Louvier; "surely you are not an Imperialist?" "Nay, I do not pretend to be a politician at all, but there is something in the writing of Pierre Firmin that pains and chills me."

Much less were they so at this juncture, when the nation was on the point of being engaged in a difficult and expensive war, and plunged into foreign measures and connexions, which would require the utmost skill of an able politician to render them palatable to the people. Mr. Pitt and Mr.