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The exposure of one politico-financial transaction of his the Erie Railway affair had cost him the Republican nomination in 1876, in spite of Ingersoll's amazing piece of rhetoric delivered on his behalf, wherein the celebrated Secularist orator declared that "like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine strode down the floor of Congress and flung his shining lance, full and fair" at those miscreants who objected to politicians using their public status for private profit.
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