unlooser

Updated: August 23, 2026

And above all, death, the great pacificator, unlooser of bonds, and aider of progress, was doing his work. The old men were dying and carrying their prejudices with them, while each year thousands of young voters, to whom the war was an echo of passion, sprang to the polls and faced the future policy of the parties, not their past.

Hamlin Garland - A Spoil of Office: A Story of the Modern West