Caucuses Of 1860: A History of the National Political Conventions of the Current Presidential Campaign; Being a Complete Record of the Business of All the Conventions; with Sketches of Distinguished Men in Attendance Upon Them and Descriptions of the Most

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IE I have a prejudice against or partiality for any political party, such that I am incapable of taking an impartial view of its proceedings, and of telling the truth of it irrespective of the antagonisms, that de mand concealment on the one hand and perversion on the other, I am unconscious of the fact.

I know that in making the Circuit of the Conventions, in the capacity of a journalist, I endeavored to pursue the path of candor; and that this was not only my personal feeling but the policy of the journal with which I am connected.

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