Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. 3 of 3 Wire-puller is an opprobrious name, the popular theory being that a President of the United States is the choice of the people, expressed spontaneously. But a little reflection will lead any intelligent person to the conclusion that the popular choice can not often be spontaneous. In order that the people may be enabled to give effective expression to their desires, it is necessary that, from the mass of those who aspire to serve them, the two men should be selected who, more than any others, represent the divergent tendencies of the time. It will not happen once in a century that two men will stand before the people so distinctively representative that the two parties will spontaneously look up to them as their standard-bearers. And when that does happen, the superior claims of those two individuals will not be apparent to their rivals. Therefore, before the presidential course can be cleared for a fair contest between two candidates, there must be a great deal of work done of the kind commonly stigmatized as wire-pulling. Rival interests must be conciliated ; competing vanities soothed ; undeniable claims postponed ; groundless pretensions put aside ; local pride nattered or allayed ; local prejudices ascertained and considered. Long journeys must be performed and long letters written ; there must be consultations in editorial sanctums, in custom-house parlors, in country mansions, in law-offices, in the inner snuggeries of great hotels, in the lobbies and committee-rooms of legislative halls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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