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all partisan politics, standing firmly upon the broad and 

 sound platform of principles, not men. To show the feel 

 ing that actuated this body of men, I give the text of the 

 resolutions that were stigmatized as a mass of stupidly- 

 framed rhetoric.&quot; Each reader of the Groundswell may 



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thus judge for himself of the animus of their critics, who 

 should be marked as having written themselves down the 

 enemies of all popular reform. 



WHEREAS, Through the departure from the primary principles of 

 our Government as promulgated by its founders, and through the 



