A Discourse On the Character And Public Services of Dewitt Clinton Delivered Be
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Any change in these, even for the better, would be sure to meet with opposition ; and although in the sys- tem proposed by the revisers, no alteration had been made that was not imperatively called for, or could be avoided without important sacrifices, still the opposition that has since broken out, on the part of those who were gainers by the uncertainty in which the question was involved, was anticipated. To be prepared for meeting this, the powerful aid of Clinton was sought, and immediately... granted, in a manner which showed how little he valued temporary popularity, where great public interests were at stake. Had he lived, we should probably now have seen our state holding out its standards, for the imitation of the others and of the Union in general, instead of being compelled to wit- ness this system mangled, as it has just been, to make it suit the private ends of interested individuals. Yet the very proposal of this law had anticipated, and consequently frustrated, a favourite scheme of Clinton ; and the revisers who had reported it were all enrolled in the ranks of his political opponents.
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