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5313. MISSOURI QUESTION, Presidential politics.—[continued].

Nothing disturbs us so
much as the dissension lately produced by
what is called the Missouri question; a question
having just enough of the semblance of
morality to throw dust into the eyes of the


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people and to fanaticize; while with the
knowing ones it is simply a question of
power.—
To D. B. Warden. Ford ed., x, 172.
(M. Dec. 1820)